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Create infopath form and publish in sharepoint
Question Posted on 26 Sep 2017
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To Create infopath form we need to open infopath designer 2013 and need to choose Blank form from below screen
Now below design form will appear as shown in below screen
Now go to Insert tab to go to desgin form
Now we can add heading text and type Contact Info by right click on the form, select Insert, and then Rows Below (repeat this 2 times to add 2 rows).
Now in the Fields window on the the right hand, right click on the myFields folder, and click Add.
Now choose Add Field or Group form should show up as below
Repeat the steps above to add the remaining fields using the text data type
Drag each field and add it to the form on below screen
Now to publish infopath to sharepoint 2013 we need to enter the saherpoint URL as given in below screen
Now select below value as given in screen
Select the Form Library option if you want publish the new form to a SharePoint Form library only. Click Next to go to the next Publishing Wizard page.
select create a new form library and click Next
Now Add to add those columns and click Next. These fields will be available as columns in the SharePoint Site
Now Publish to publish the InfoPath Form. Select Open this form library and click Close
Now InfoPath Library on SharePoint is opened.
Click New Document and the InfoPath Form will be open in edit mode.
Fill out the form and click Save.
Now InfoPath Form is in the SharePoint site as shown below
Publish InfoPath Form Template to Site Content TypeHow to Configure and Publish InfoPath to SharePoint 2013
Give a Content Type name and click Next
Specify a location and file name for the form template.
To use InfoPath as a Content Type, go to the Library in which you want to create the form, click the Library tab --> click Library Settings --> click Advance Settings --> under Allow management of content types, select Yes.
Under the Content Type section, click Add from existing site content types --> Select Microsoft InfoPath from the "Select site content types from" drop down list --> select Info Patch Content Type from Available Site Content Types box --> click Add, and click OK.
Go back to the Library and click the Files tab, click the down arrow at New Document, and click InfoPathCT.
Select the Administrator-approved form template and click Next. This option will make the form template available on all site collections.
Specify a location and file name for the form template and click Next.
To re-use the InfoPath template on other Site Collections, follow these steps below:
In Central Administration, click General Application Settings --> under InfoPath Forms Services, click Manage form templates.
Click Update form template and select file InfoPathSC which we saved before and click Ok
Make sure the form template is uploaded success and click OK
Now the Form Template is uploaded to the Manage Form Template page.
Click on the down arrow besides the Form template to activate the InfoPath Form Template at the site collection.
Go to the other site collection to activate the feature (Click Site Settings --> under Site Collection Administrator section, select Site Collection Features --> Activate InfoPathSC).
Now we can use the InfoPathSC Form in that site collection. | |
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