Submit an Emailed InfoPath Form to a SharePoint Library

Question

If I publish the form to SP 2010 and the user is not part of the SharePoint site then they would not be able to open the form so I need to be able to email it to them. However, it still needs to be submitted back to SharePoint.

Is it possible to email an InfoPath form and have it submitted back to a SharePoint Library?

Thanks

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John Fletcher

Answer 1

You can actually allow anonymous users to submit forms to a library. This blog should help with that:

http://claytoncobb.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/infopath-allowing-anonymous-users-to-submit-forms-in-sharepoint-2010/

Answer 2

Thank you for this link. I didn't see any mention about Office 365 - do you know if it is possible?

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John Fletcher

Answer 3

Do you mean your SharePoint servers are hosted by office 365? My instincts tell me it should work the same.

Answer 4

I haven't found a way to modify the anonymous users to "Add Item" in Office 365 SharePoint. It defaults to "View Item" and it can't be changed. Any ideas on how to get around this? it would be great to be able to implement this in O365.

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John Fletcher

Answer 5

You can't add Add Item without View Item.. if you check Add Item then it always checks View Item as well.. not sure if that is what you mean.

Answer 6

The problem is you can't modify the setting for "Anonymous User". It is set to "View Only" and is greyed out in Office 365.

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John Fletcher

Answer 7

Hi ,

Through your posts I understand that you are using SharePoint Online .As far as I know only publish facing site can allow anonymous access to limited contents .And these anonymous users can only read  .They cannot submit items to a form library .

For more information about anonymous access to SharePoint Online ,please refer to this site:

Anonymous Access: http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/p/746/3622.aspx

Thanks

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Entan Ming

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