Infopath form as Agent test

Hello. We've set up numerous InfoPath Forms as tests for our agents to take to test their industry/company knowledge of our business. I use drop-down list box fields for each question but use option buttons in the form itself. We set
3 of the "Value when selected" to 0 (actually 0, 00, and 000 to differentiate them) and the last option to 1 (the correct answer). Then we have a separate question that sums all the values and divides by the number of questions to get
the percentage correct. I've been tasked with populating a single field with all the question numbers that were answered incorrectly. Any suggestions on how to get started?

Thanks of your help once again Scott.
With regards to #1, how can I prevent the user from seeing the XSN?
With regards to #2, if I make a change to the InfoPath form and republish as CT to the same SP environment does the CTypeID stay that same? If it stays the same, does it even stay the same if I add or remove a promoted field? If I use SPD and
create the workflow again from scratch on the server and associate it with the CT, that should be OK, right? Otherwise if I need to move the workflow from the dev server to the prod server where the CT is, do I give the exported SPD workflow .wsp file
to an admin to deploy via CA? How would that fix the CTypeID problem? I was not aware of content type hubs but just a watched a youtube video on them. Hopefully our SP admin is familiar with such. But I'm still unsure about what to
do with my resuable CT workflow from SPD.

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I have an Infopath form library, in which I have done the property promotion and exposed some of the columns.
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Hi Venkatzeus,
Have you tried using contextual search for this InfoPath form library?
Please go to site setting page->Site collection ->Site Collection Administration section->Search Settings page, select the value "Show and default to contextual scope" for option "Site Collection Search Dropdown Mode",
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See more information from below.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg576955%28v=office.14%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396#BKMKSiteCollectionSearchSettings
http://www.sharepointanalysthq.com/2010/06/sharepoint-2010-site-search-drop-down-mode/
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When opening an InfoPath form InfoPath states "list does not exist" in production, opens fine in test. NaN issue with Auto Increment

Hello all. I have an InfoPath form that opens from the test server fine. However, when I try to open it in Production I receive the following SOAP response.
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Server was unable to process request. ---> List does not exist.
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The page you selected contains a list that does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user."
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Any help is much appreciated. As a developer I despise SharePoint, but I have to do what I have to do! :)

Hello,
If you are trying to get max item id from list then it returns "NaN" if there is no item. If you have items in prod list then open your form in IP designer and check the data connection. Make sure that all data connection links are referring to
prod links.
Also make sure that user is having at least read permission to that list to access data so verify this also.
Let us know your result
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Make coded ui tests wait for onfocus event during playback - SharePoint 2010 InfoPath form

I recorded a coded UI test of a SharePoint 2010 site hosting an InfoPath form. The combobox on the infopath form loads the items on onfocus event. It seems that the coded ui test do not wait for the onfocus event to complete and tries to select the
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The web page could not be accessed. If the page is refreshing, please wait until the page refreshes and then perform actions on it.
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I've an InfoPath Form where I've around 10 SOAP web service data connections. They are calling a custom web service for a custom business process. The web service URL has a query string parameter which identifies whether it's a Test web service or the Production
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http://server/webservice/wsdl?targetURI=ProdSPRead (for the Production environment)
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For testing purpose, I updated the Manifest.xsf file and replaced all the occurrences of 'testSPRead' to 'ProdSPRead' and also updated all the relevant files of the data connections (like XML, XSF etc.) and saved the Manifest.xsf as Form.xsn and deployed
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The question is - is this the right way of doing it? There should be a simple method in such cases where web service has conditional parameter to identify the Test and Production web service.
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Thanks for your response Hemendra!
I hope Microsoft improves this thing in subsequent patches of InfoPath 2010 or InfoPath 2013 because I don't think this is a very special requirement. This is failing the purpose of having UDCX files for data connections. Why the WSDL's parameter value
is being written in the Manifest.xsf and other XSF and XML files. InfoPath should always refer the URL and parameters from the UDCX files.
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Created and saved Form 1 in library with no issues.
Opened edit properties and was able to modify and save the content in all three fields.
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Created and saved Form 2 in library with no issues.
Opened edit properties in Form 2 and was able to modify and save the content in all three fields.
Opened edit properties in Form 1, modified all fields and got the following message when I tried to save:
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the changes would be saved. Try editing the document in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible XML editor such as MicroSoft Office InfoPath."
Modified each field one at a time and determined the field I could not edit and that was causing the error message was
the new City field.
I re-linked Form 1 and got same error message when I tried to modify the City field.
I opened Form 1 entered the city and saved.
The content of the city field appears in the SharePoint column and I am able to edit the content through the Edit Properties field.
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You can certainly add the fields manually by using SharePoint Designer, but a more effective way to Open the form template in "Design Mode" Click "Tools" and then "Form Options" Choose "Versioning".
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the library with this content type it will upgrade the old forms in the library.
Have a look at this post on the same topic:
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User cannot open attachment from infopath form in Sp2013

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Hi srabon,
I may not make myself clear. After you opened a new SharePoint Form Library in InfoPath, then in the Controls ribbon, expand it and add the File Attachment in Objects section.
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Browser based InfoPath Forms in SharePoint 2010 performance has slowed down after SharePoint 2010 SP2

hi All,
Our Browser based Infopath forms have slowed down drastically after applying SharePoint 2010 SP2. Prior to this, we had SharePoint 2010 SP1 and the timings was around 10 seconds (single user) for the entire infopath form to be displayed which has 10-12
views and 5 data connections and 15 business rules and around 100 fields.
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Refer to the link below, which we followed by applying the patch as well, but the performance is still the same very slow.
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We have raised a ticket with Microsoft, but there is no concrete resolution as to what component of the infopath has made the form rendering and display slow.
Can someone point me to the right resource or knowledge base where i can do a kind of debug, which tells me exactly which infopath dlls are the issue or which part of my form is taking more time. I am using AOLPageTest and Fiddler, but they do not give me
any details where exactly is the bottleneck.
Any tools that give me the details of the bottleneck.
Thanks and appreciate your help in this.
Regards
Ram
Thanks Ram

hi inderjeet,
The application has gone live and its on production, the same application is on pre-prod and UAT, system testing and integration environments.
The infopath form used to work very well on all these environments before we installed sharepoint 2010 sp2. but the moment we installed sharepoint 2010 sp2, the infopath forms have slowed down.
Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issued with sharepoint 2010 sp2 and infopath form performance, but they are not able to provide an appropriate fix on this.
We have another environment where there is no sharepoint 2010 sp2 applied only sp1 is applied and the infopath form works very well within fraction of seconds.
So your point no. 1 and 2 and 3. does not reveal anything. Fiddler does not give any detailed component by component breakup where the time is taking more.
The form used to work very well before we applied sp2.
I want to know a tool that gives me exactly component by component grant chart kind of breakup of time taken when the infopath url is requested on the browser.
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No search result using managed property from a column of a published infopath form

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I'm trying to use a managed property in the advanced search to retrieve only words from a column of a published InfoPath form. We are using FAST Search and verify that the column are being crawled by checking the crawled property in Central Admin but still
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Hi Rommel,
When we create a column from a list (not site column), then we need create list item with this column value, then we need to full crawl, then the the crawled propery ows_listColumnName will be generated, then create a managed property to map this
crawled property(start a full crawl again if needed), then add the custom managed property in advance search web part property, then check again.
Here is an article about how to add the custom managed proerpty in advanced search web part, you can take a look.
http://waelmohamed.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/add-custom-search-properties-in-your-advanced-search-sharepoint-2010/
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Web service Impersonate in SharePoint InfoPath forms

Hi All,
We are using SharePoint 2010 InfoPath forms in one of the sites. We have IIS hosted Web service which is using TIBCO service to fetch the users info in InfoPath forms.
Now my client wants to migrate to SAP, due to cost involved they want to use one dedicated account to get the user info from SAP instead of Sharepoint site logged in user.
I implemented Impersonate in IIS web service web. Config file as below.
<identity impersonate="true" username="Domain\Username" password="Password123" />
However am getting error when I fetch the users in the form. I checked the log and found below error.
The following query failed: GetEmployeeList (User: 0#.w|Domain\UserName, Form Name: NESS-TerminationRequest-v14, IP: , Connection Target: , Request:
https://MySite/sites/forms/HRTest/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=https://MySite/sites/forms/FormServerTemplates/NESS-TerminationRequest-v14.xsn&SaveLocation=https://MySite/sites/forms/HRTest/TerminationRequestDoc&ClientInstalled=true&Source=https://MySite/sites/forms/HRTest/TerminationRequestDoc/Forms/AllItems.aspx&DefaultItemOpen=1,
Form ID: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:NESS-TerminationRequest-v14:-myXSD-2008-11-02T22-14-53 Type: DataAdapterException, Exception Message: The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. The remote server returned an error:
(500) Internal Server Error.)
I have double checked the service with SOAP UI which is working fine for dedicated test user.
Could you please let me know is any one faced similar issues or any help here please.
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Syam

Hi
created UDCX connection and passed the credentials in SSO to access the SAP service, however i got below error.
The following query failed: GetEmployeeList (User: 0#.w|domain\mohans, Form Name: NESS-TerminationRequest-v15, IP: , Connection Target:
https://MYSite/forms/hr/DataConnections/GetEmployeeList.udcx, Request:
https://MySite/forms/HRTest/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=https://MySite/forms/FormServerTemplates/NESS-TerminationRequest-v15.xsn&SaveLocation=https://MySite/forms/HRTest/TerminationRequestDoc&ClientInstalled=true&Source=https://MYSIte/forms/HRTest/TerminationRequestDoc/Forms/AllItems.aspx&DefaultItemOpen=1,
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i tried with NTLM,Basic and Windows in COnnection file and also tried various target types in SSO but nothing helped me.
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Can we move InfoPath forms from development site to production site?

From the question I mean only the form, not the site itself.
Is there any way to move a InfoPath form from SharePoint development site to production site?
Thanks,

just publish it to production site
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/infopath-help/move-a-published-form-template-to-a-new-sharepoint-library-HP010102446.aspx
Step 1: Publish the form template to the new document library
Open the working copy of the form template in design mode.
On the File menu, click Publish.
In the Publishing Wizard, click To a SharePoint server with or without InfoPath Forms Services, and then click
Next.
In the Enter the location of your SharePoint or InfoPath Forms Services site box, type the location of the SharePoint site that contains the new document library that you want to move your form template to, and then click
Next.
On the next page of the wizard, click Document Library, and then click
Next.
Click Create a new document library, and then click
Next.
On the next page of the wizard, type a name and description for the new document library, and then click
Next.
Choose the fields in the form template that you want to appear as columns in the default view of the document library.
How?
Click Next.
On the next page of the wizard, verify that the information shown is correct, and then click
Publish.
To open the document library and test the process for filling out a form that is based on this form template, select the
Open this document library check box, and then click Close.
The document library will open in a browser. When you click New on the list toolbar, a form based on this form template will open in Microsoft Office InfoPath.
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/17383/infopath-change-publish-location
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How to save infopath form in XML file

How to save InfoPath form in XML file.
I want every new record in InfoPath form save in XML file and also retrieve these records from XML like databases

Hi,
Based on your description, my understanding is that you want to save InfoPath form in XML file.
I have done a test in my SharePoint, Do the following steps:
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Need to insert image as hyperlink in infopath form

currently in my infopath form i have inserted hyperlink control,it is working fine.
but the issue is not able to customize the UI of hyperlink much,so now i don't want text has hyperlink,i want image as hyperlink.
i noticed select picture option under hyperlink properties,but their is no browse option to select image.
on click on image it should redirect user to some other page(.aspx).
Is der any way to achieve this,image as hyperlink ?
NOTE: i don't want to use custom code just for redirecting.

Hi,
This can be achieved though not as easy as it sounds.
## Field Reversion Issue
Intuitively, you may think that if you click the “Insert” tab on your InfoPath form, and then choose “Picture”, and insert the picture on the form, you would then be able to bind that picture to a dynamic link. When you open the picture properties, you can
even see where you can bind it. If you right click on the picture, select “Hyperlink” you will see the following:
Great you are thinking! I just have to select my newly created dynamic field in the “Data Source” section and we’re good. Right? Unfortunately not.
So, for example, I will go ahead and select my first link hidden field to populate the form. Here is what it looks like when I do:
I then click “OK”. But it doesn’t work! Open the hyperlink properties again to see why:
The “Link to” field has reverted back to the “Address” selection, losing all of your binding information. This is the field reversion link issue.
## Set Your Image URLS Dynamically (Field Reversion Work Around)
Ingredients
• InfoPath form
• Form Links List populated with links
• Image (or images) to link to queried URL values
• Hidden fields containing URL values
Steps
1. Open your InfoPath form.
2. Determine where on the form you wish to place the image.
3. Open Windows Explorer and browse to your link image
4. Right click on the Image and Choose “Copy”.
5. Go back to your InfoPath form, click within the area you wish to have your image link, right click and choose “Paste”
6. Your image should now appear on the form. Inserting an Image this way allows us to retain the data source binding. Click on the image if not selected already, and right click. Select “Hyperlink”
7. Click the “Data Source” radio button.
8. Select the Appropriate hidden link field and click “OK”
9. Click “OK”. Now, if you open the hyperlink properties of this image, it will remember the binding. Copying and pasting allows the binding to be remembered. Inserting an image using the InfoPath Insert command does not.
10. Repeat this process for each of the image/URL links you have in your form.
11. Publish and test. You should be able to click the images in your form and have the appropriate URL open in a new window
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Deploy InfoPath Forms across Ms SharePoint environments

Hi,
I have created workflows in MS SharePoint 2010 and added MS InfoPath forms in it. However, when migrating the workflow from DEV to TEST environment, the InfoPath is not included. I would like to export the MS InfoPath form DEV and import it into TEST environment.
I am looking for help regarding the migration. Any help in this regard will be appreciated.

Hi Abhijit,
For migrating workflow with InfoPath Forms in SharePoint 2010,you can refer to the steps as below:
1. Export source files of the form. Open form in InfoPath designer. And because we can't republish it to the different place using wizard (its type is a Workflow form), we should Export source files (from the menu File\Publish) to some folder.
After this step we received a set of files, one of which is "manifest.xsf".
2. Close InfoPath designer.
3. Correct URLs in manifest.xsf Open "manifest.xsf" in a text editor. Find all URL related to the first site collection and replace it with new URLs linked to new site collection. Save the file.
Hint: If you don't know the URL to publish in new site collection, you can open autogenerated form from it in the same manner (look at URLs in its manifest.xsf).
4. Publish changed form. Open InfoPath designer, open corrected manifest.xsf in it and publish it (by pressing the publish button for example).
5. Hurray! The form is deployed to the new place!
You should repeat this steps for all custom InfoPath task forms in your workflow.
Reference:
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/41542/how-to-reconnect-infopath-task-form-to-spd-workflow-after-moving-it-to-the-new-s
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/36462/copying-a-globally-reusable-workflow-in-sp-designer-loses-form-task-fields-and-i/41556#41556
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"Title" field not showing up in infopath forms

We have a custom infopath form for submitting requests. It have a column called "Title" ( the default Title which is the same one, that will show when you create a new form library)
The issue which we are facing is that- while we edit the form template in the designer 2010 view, we are not seeing the "Title" column.
We had scrolled through the fields section and also rules to check if something is working behind, but not.
Please let me know how to make this "Title" field visible in designer tool.
Its showing in the SharePoint form library but not in infopath designer(while editing).
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Hi ,
Could you provide a screenshot about your issue?
The list "Title" column could be displayed and customized in InfoPath Designer.
Please create a new list to customize with InfoPath Designer, see if it's this particular list issue.
Please make a copy of this problem list, then create a new "Text box" and bind the data source "Title" in InfoPath Designer for a test, see if this could work for you.
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