SP2010 and Infopath: Can't publish form, getting "An Administrator must approve this form template before it can be filled out"

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm hoping that someone can shed some light on this issue that I'm having, publishing an InfoPath form to SharePoint 2010 sharepoint site. To start off, I am admin of the sharepoint site I'm publishing to, with full permissions; I am NOT a central administrator
for sharepoint services though, that is our IT manager.
I have designed a simple form, questions and text fields, a button at the bottom to submit, and in the Submit Options for the form I added some emails to whom the form will go to once submitted.
I published the form the first time successfully, selecting:
-Publish
-To a SharePoint server with or without InfoPath Forms Services
Selected the site where I am an admin on
-Enable this form to be filled out by using a browser
--Document library
etc, next, next success, I got the URL for the form.
Went through just fine, until I opened the URL for the form and realized that I left the option to display the form Menu which I didn't want displayed to users.
I went back in InfoPath and removed these options from Form Options (Browser), tried to republish it, and at the "Enable this form to be filled out by using a browser", the first two options "Document Library" and "Site Content"
are no longer selectable, greyed out, and instead I can only select "Administrator-approved form template (advanced)" option.
What gives here? Why was I able to publish it the first time without any issue, but once I remove the option to show the menu in the browser, I can't republish it. This is such a huge pain and causing so must wasted time trying to find a solution. I have no
code in the form, it's a simple form. I tried adding the menus back, and it's still giving me the same problem about admin-approved forms..
About 6 months ago I designed another form for another sharpoint site, and I remember having run into this issue before but found a way to get around it, but I can't find that info anymore.
Can someone shed some light on this please, I find this behavior so inconsistent..
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Hi Teredactle,
Based on your description, I did a testing per the below:
Create a blank form with InfoPath Designer, and add a Text Box and a submit button, the submit button send an email to a people.
Publish the form to a new library in my SharePoint site.
re-open the form via InfoPath Designer, and click File->Forms Options->Web browser, unselect some options
Then re-publish the form. I re-published the form via the Quick Publish and Publish->SharePoint server, they all worked well.
Whether you can use Quick Publish to publish the form.
As I cannot reproduce your issue, I suggest you create a new form, and test again, compare the result.
And test on another site, check whether this issue occurres on other sites.
Best Regards,
Wendy
Wendy Li
TechNet Community Support