How to create another form library item in Infopath?

Question

Hi All,
I have a Infopath form library and submited a new item successfully. But my requirement is, when i update the same item then it should submit as new item in that form library. How to achieve this in? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi Sam,
According to your description, after updating an item, you want to save it as a new item in the Form Library.
In SharePoint Form Library, the items with names are not allowed to be created. In this scenario, after updating an item, a workaround is that you can submit the item
as a new Form Library item with another name.
To save the current editing item with a new name, we can use a formula to generate a date time string as the “File name”, then each time user submits an updated item,
there will be a new form created in the Form Library.
Here is the related formula I use in this scenario, you can change the formula according to your requirement:
The same Form Library items are submitted with different File Names based on current time:
Here is a link about adding a submit data connection, you can use it as a reference:
https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/Submit-form-data-to-a-SharePoint-library-86e3c32d-d921-4b2e-9d74-89bdc62c6936?CorrelationId=d9e73082-2630-48c6-92c7-c001e15315fa&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Best regards
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support