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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / August 2007Managing form changes over time?
I am looking for some best practices for handling changes to forms that are published to sharepoint. Basically, this form is destined to change over time, and the lifetime of this form is probably 10 years, which means that we could see a lot of completed forms saved in sharepoint that would need to be updated as the forms change. The question I have, is are there any best practices for handling changes to the schema of a sharepoint published form and getting the older ones to follow with those changes? One thought (that I have implemeted) is to make the form use a repeating section that can hold many types of information in it's structure. For example, instead of createing three fields for DateOfBirth, Hair Color, and Height, create a repeating section with fields named dataCategory, dataCode, and dataValue. Then you insert three rows for each of the three: DataCategory, dataCode, dataValue ====================== PersonalInfo, DateOfBirth, "4/1/99" PersonalInfo, Hair Color, "Blue" PersonalInfo, Height, "7'10" This way the info you collect over time can expand without necessitating chage to the form. /bac > I am looking for some best practices for handling changes to forms that are > published to sharepoint. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the schema of a sharepoint published form and getting the older ones to > follow with those changes? Hello You can try using this product http://www.qdabra.com/proddetail.asp?prod=QDBXL1 I hope it will help you.  SignatureKalyan G Reddy - INFOPATH MVP 2007 http://www.ggktech.com > I am looking for some best practices for handling changes to forms that are > published to sharepoint. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the schema of a sharepoint published form and getting the older ones to > follow with those changes? Check the following section in the InfoPath SDK documentation. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb251002.aspx One key thing to examine is the use of upgrade.xsl to automatically upgrade forms saved using an older XML schema to a newer schema format. In general, you can add to an existing schema without problems, but changing node names or structure can introduce complications. SignatureDavid Dean Sr. Member Technical Staff Insource Technology Corp. > I am looking for some best practices for handling changes to forms that are > published to sharepoint. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > the schema of a sharepoint published form and getting the older ones to > follow with those changes? |
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