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How to open an InfoPath form and template that were moved or copied

S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:49:30 +0000

Problem Your client had an InfoPath developer (someone you do not know) build an InfoPath form template and then publish it to a SharePoint server at your client’s site. You do not have access to the SharePoint server where the form template was published, neither do you have direct access to the InfoPath form template the [...]

How to set the maximum field length in InfoPath

S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:33:32 +0000

If you’re used to programming in Visual Studio, you’ll be disappointed to know that there is no MaxLength property that you can set on fields in InfoPath that can hold multiple lines of text with line breaks. So if you want to set the maximum field length on a multi-line InfoPath Text Box (that allows [...]

Quick Tip: Display button text on two lines in InfoPath

S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:25:12 +0000

Once in a while I go through the log files of my InfoPath website and sometimes I find some interesting things that InfoPath or SharePoint users want to do with Microsoft products. Recently I found the following search query in my logs: button text infopath two lines. While it is not always clear to me [...]

Display Excel data in InfoPath via SharePoint or XML connections

S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:25:10 +0000

If you want to display data from an Excel spreadsheet as a secondary data source in InfoPath, you can use one of two methods: Save the Excel spreadsheet as an XML file, and then create a Receive data connection to an XML document in InfoPath. Publish and synchronize the data in the Excel spreadsheet as a table [...]

Publish Excel 2007 data to SharePoint then display it in InfoPath

S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:37:54 +0000

Before you begin, you must download and install the Excel 2007 Add-in: Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists. In this InfoPath video tutorial, you learned… How to format data as a table in Excel 2007. How to publish Excel 2007 data to SharePoint and create a SharePoint list, which contains Excel data. How to create a data connection to a [...]