Properties of InfoPath Form Library

Hi,

I have a question about the user-defined property of a form library. When
create a new document library or a form library, we are able to add new
columns for displaying. We can also specify a new column as "requires that
this column contains infomation".

In case of a word or excel document library, when set up as described above,
and when save a new document to the library from one's desktop, a dialog box
will pop up to require use to enter the required information as defined in
the column.

HOWEVER, this doesn't work for an InfoPath form library. When click "Fill
out a from" from the library, and save it back, even the required column is
defined, no dialog box pops up for collecting required information. Also, if
an InfoPath form is saved in a document library, it is same as well.

I'm trying to use this mechanism to implement certain workflow. But it can
work for InfoPath form library. Any solution for this? or Did I miss some
settings?

TIA.

Mark

Steven
Mon Feb 20 15:14:40 CST 2006

Make it required in Infopath ? Write a script on the submit action in
infopath ?


"Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:431529E0-79DB-4058-A992-F52DC258601B@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the user-defined property of a form library. When
> create a new document library or a form library, we are able to add new
> columns for displaying. We can also specify a new column as "requires that
> this column contains infomation".
>
> In case of a word or excel document library, when set up as described
> above,
> and when save a new document to the library from one's desktop, a dialog
> box
> will pop up to require use to enter the required information as defined in
> the column.
>
> HOWEVER, this doesn't work for an InfoPath form library. When click "Fill
> out a from" from the library, and save it back, even the required column
> is
> defined, no dialog box pops up for collecting required information. Also,
> if
> an InfoPath form is saved in a document library, it is same as well.
>
> I'm trying to use this mechanism to implement certain workflow. But it can
> work for InfoPath form library. Any solution for this? or Did I miss some
> settings?
>
> TIA.
>
> Mark

Mark
Mon Feb 20 17:03:28 CST 2006

That is a good idea. But for word or excel documents, it doesn't require to
write scripts to do so. That is why I'm thinking whether form library doesn't
support this, or whether we can write sharepoint event handler to deal with
this from the server side, so there is no need to customize each InfoPath
form.

Is it possible to do so in WSS instead of in InfoPath?

Thanks for responding.

"Steven Collier [MVP]" wrote:

> Make it required in Infopath ? Write a script on the submit action in
> infopath ?
>
>
> "Mark" <Mark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:431529E0-79DB-4058-A992-F52DC258601B@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about the user-defined property of a form library. When
> > create a new document library or a form library, we are able to add new
> > columns for displaying. We can also specify a new column as "requires that
> > this column contains infomation".
> >
> > In case of a word or excel document library, when set up as described
> > above,
> > and when save a new document to the library from one's desktop, a dialog
> > box
> > will pop up to require use to enter the required information as defined in
> > the column.
> >
> > HOWEVER, this doesn't work for an InfoPath form library. When click "Fill
> > out a from" from the library, and save it back, even the required column
> > is
> > defined, no dialog box pops up for collecting required information. Also,
> > if
> > an InfoPath form is saved in a document library, it is same as well.
> >
> > I'm trying to use this mechanism to implement certain workflow. But it can
> > work for InfoPath form library. Any solution for this? or Did I miss some
> > settings?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Mark
>
>
>

Amir
Tue Feb 21 03:08:21 CST 2006

Ok the behavior you're looking for is only available for word and excel documents,
but infopath works in a diffrent way. duing publishing forms you can promote
form fields to be available in sharepoint form library (as you know) and
every action in workflow should trigger by those fields.
May be you have to change the way you were analyze your requirement, because
as I told forms works in diffrent way, word and excel docs works.

---------------------------------
Amir Mehrani
http://zerotouch.xwiki.com
---------------------------------

> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the user-defined property of a form library.
> When create a new document library or a form library, we are able to
> add new columns for displaying. We can also specify a new column as
> "requires that this column contains infomation".
>
> In case of a word or excel document library, when set up as described
> above, and when save a new document to the library from one's desktop,
> a dialog box will pop up to require use to enter the required
> information as defined in the column.
>
> HOWEVER, this doesn't work for an InfoPath form library. When click
> "Fill out a from" from the library, and save it back, even the
> required column is defined, no dialog box pops up for collecting
> required information. Also, if an InfoPath form is saved in a document
> library, it is same as well.
>
> I'm trying to use this mechanism to implement certain workflow. But it
> can work for InfoPath form library. Any solution for this? or Did I
> miss some settings?
>
> TIA.
>
> Mark
>