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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / October 2007Can Infopath Client form initiate and control Workflow
We need to initiate the workflow from the desktop Infopath form. The users which are participating in the workflow should be able to control the state of the item on which workflow is running? Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? Mohit, The biggest challenge here is how & whereto host the workflow runtime. Infopath 2007 software can't be the workflow. At the sametime there is a way to achieve the functionality you had asked for. You neee to develop add-ins (custom components) using VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) and call a custom application (custom assembly) to host you workflow. In this case the custom application (custom assembly) is your workflow host. The custom application can be a console application/desktop application/windows service for your case. Hope this clarifies !  Signature---- Sundar Narasiman, http://dotnetbuzz.spaces.live.com/ > We need to initiate the workflow from the desktop Infopath form. > The users which are participating in the workflow should be able to control > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? Thanks Sundar for your reply. But the workflow runtime will be in the Sharepoint server. The Infopath form is also in the document library of the MOSS. But these Infopath forms are not web enabled and the user though opens them from the Sharepoint site but they get opened on the Desktop Infopath not in the IE. Now I am wondering how I can initiate a workflow from the Desktop client and how I can change the state if the document using code? > Mohit, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? What you are achieving by having the workflow to run on the sharepoint server and the form to run independently as the client form ??? Signature---- Sundar Narasiman, http://dotnetbuzz.spaces.live.com/ > We need to initiate the workflow from the desktop Infopath form. > The users which are participating in the workflow should be able to control > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? The User do not want to go to the task list and enter the review comments and approve it. What he wants to it from one single place by looking at the infopath form. We are not able to use Web enabled form because we are putting images in the infopath Richtext box field which will only be viewable if we use Client Infopath forms. > What you are achieving by having the workflow to run on the sharepoint > server and the form to run independently as the client form ??? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? Where will you track the status of the worflow ? Let's say you've the serial workflow traversing from users A--->B-->C ?? Where will the users track the approval ?? Where will the users approve this case ?? Are you going to provide the worflow status tracking functionality to the client-side infopath form ?? Signature---- Sundar Narasiman, http://dotnetbuzz.spaces.live.com/ > The User do not want to go to the task list and enter the review comments and > approve it. What he wants to it from one single place by looking at the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > > > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client? Yes we will create a infopath form which will show option of approval etc on the infopath form clicked by the user based on their roles. We will be using State machine workflow so we want to know how we can intiate and control the document status using Infopath form. Can we programmatically do this? > Where will you track the status of the worflow ? > Let's say you've the serial workflow traversing from users A--->B-->C ?? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > the state of the item on which workflow is running? > > > > Can we do this programmatically in C# in desktop Infopath Client?
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