Infopath 2007 to Infopath 2010

Question

Hi,

I need to upgrade an Infopath 2007 Filler Form to an Infopath  2010 Filler Form.

It is a pretty complex form, it has about 17 views, 20 Data Connections (Web Services, Sharepoint Lists) and it is used to generate a Word document based on a XSLT template.

What found as an issue / limitation is tha when I try to Upgrade any of the Sharepoint List Data Connections, it displays the following message:

"...All Controls that use data retrieved by this connection will no longer display any data and will need to be configured again"

Therefore I need to remap all controls inside the form to display the original values, etc, which is not an easy task due to the amount of controls.

Another question: Is there a way to get the list of all Controls, Textboxes, etc and their respective bindings, connections, etc?

Please advise, I need to finish this and any help is useful at this point.

Answer 1

Hi true_oss,

Is there any reason why you need to change the InfoPath 2007 Filler Form to an Infopath 2010 Filler Form. So far in my experience you can still fill in a InfoPath 2007 Filler Form in InfoPath 2010. Also you can update the InfoPath 2007 Filler Form to 2010 without updating the SharePoint List data connections. 

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Kind Regards, Justin Nash

Answer 2

Hi Justin,

The upgrade of the form is the first step of many other future enhancements.

But as I mentioned before when trying to save the XSN 2007 file to a XSN 2010 file I get an error forcing me to upgrade the connections.

Is there any workaround for this?

Any help is abolutely apreciated :D

NOTE: The connection to the SharePoint 2010 lists are not connection files, this is due to performance.