XML Schemas embedded in Forms TIPS

I have been having a lot of trouble with embedding an XML Schema into my form to be used with a Workflow. The first problem appears to be that if you create a form and the very "FIRST" dataconnection is not to your schema, the workflow designer will not see it. The only way around this was to manually edit the XML behind the form so that it was the first connection (not fun).
The other issue I have makes sense. I had my schema in the same folder as my form on my local machine, so when I bound my schema to the folder, it just put ./schema.xsd as the location of the schema. When I loaded the form into the Form Manager, I also uploaded the schema into the same folder. When I made a change to my schema on my local copy, I forgot to change the copy I had put in the Form Manager, so even though I was making the change to my form and re-saving the form again with the check-box to embed the schema, the workflow designer never saw it. When you export a workflow, there is no reference to the schema, so it must just look at the form variable that you defined.

Hi Dave
In my experience, the "embed" option does actually work. However, you need to restart Workflow Designer if you change the embedded schema, because WFD caches the schema, and will not refresh it if it's changed.
As far as I'm aware, WF will not follow the link to a non-embedded schema.
Howard
http://www.avoka.com

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