Publishing InfoPath Forms

Question

I have successfully published an InfoPath form to a document library on the server. I go to that library and click on settings>form library settings  and add from an existing content type. There I find the list box of available site content types and the new one isn't there. I'm also not sure what's supposed to be in that box, the filename of the template?? I think that I'm missing a step or two.

Thanks,

Dave

Answer 1

You published straight to the doc lib, so it's already in that doc lib.  If you click new, your form will open.  You only add content types to your form library if you published the form template as a content type.  It doesn't sound like you chose that option.

When you choose "Document Library" as your publish type, then it overwrites the template.xsn file that is the default template for the default Form content type (you should see that in there when you allowed for management of content types).  When you published, it just overwrote the original template, and it immediately starts working after that.

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Answer 2

Thanks Clayton for your reply. How would I load multiple templates into the New button of the library?

Answer 3

Thanks Clayton for your reply. How would I load multiple templates into the New button of the library?

1) In the Form Library, go to Settings > Form Library Settings > Advanced Settings > Select Yes on Allow for Management of Content Types
2) Go back to the Settings page and notice that you have a new section for Content Types, and you'll only see the default Form Content Type
3) Click Add from existing site content types
4) Find the new form content types that you published and add them
5) You will now have all the new ones plus the default one, and you can decide to remove the default one or leave it.  You can also decide which ones show up on the New button, in which order, and which one is the default.

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Answer 4

This is the way that I originally tried and I found that the form content types did not appear in the list box (before I add them to the next box). Am I publishing somehow incorrectly? I published to a Sharepoint Library.

Thanks.

Answer 5

If you publish your form as a content type, then it asks you where you want to store it - you store it in some doc lib on the same site.  Once you do this, you create a form library and add content types.  All your InfoPath published content types will show up.  Publishing to a document library is not publishing as a content type - two different radio buttons on the same page of the publishing wizard.

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Answer 6

Thanks Clayton, this is what I needed!