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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / February 2008Mulitple infopath forms in one document library
Can you publish more than one form in a form library? I would like a user to just pick a form and be able to fill it out. I have 22 categories from excel and creating 22 views kills the form, way to slow to open. The forms have all same fields, different data but I cannot use the same fields as sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. Hi Jamie You can not have more than one form template per form library. You can create links to have links to multiple forms libraries in one place. How is your form architected? Best practice would be to use multiple views rather than seperate templates if the dat is the same. The performance should not be a problem depending on how your data is configured. If you have some complex relational data then you should look at using a database and then having InfoPath be the user interface for user interaction with each record.  SignatureClay Fox / Microsoft InfoPath MVP www.InfoPathDev.com / The InfoPath Authority / Downloads, Samples, How-To, Experts, Forum > Can you publish more than one form in a form library? I would like a user to > just pick a form and be able to fill it out. I have 22 categories from > excel and creating 22 views kills the form, way to slow to open. The forms > have all same fields, different data but I cannot use the same fields as > sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. Ok. Thank you for your reply. Would the excel be ok to use as a database? It really relies on this workbook. The forms are only used to get an approval and update the budget and it requires a signature. That is the only reason why we are using the infopath (browser based). Do you have the best information on digital certifications? I understand how to apply it to the form and how to get a signature on there, however they will not pay (ex.. verisign or others) for certificates, needs to be in house. Does the certifications have to be added to the form in order to make the approved signature to work? Again thanks for your time. > Hi Jamie > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> have all same fields, different data but I cannot use the same fields as >> sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. In that scenario, where you have Excel users and InfoPath and you want to share data between, best practice is to have a common database. Excel works the same but the data sits in the database rather than the individual spreadsheet. Also InfoPath can access the data as needed as well. For signatures, what are you using for workflow? SignatureClay Fox / Microsoft InfoPath MVP www.InfoPathDev.com / The InfoPath Authority / Downloads, Samples, How-To, Experts, Forum > Ok. Thank you for your reply. Would the excel be ok to use as a database? > It really relies on this workbook. The forms are only used to get an [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > >> have all same fields, different data but I cannot use the same fields as > >> sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. Ok well the good thing is, only one person is allowed to update that excel worksheet and the form would just pull data from there if a user needs it. Anything that happens on that form, only up to 3 people will be dealing with that info everytime. Its relatively small. Everything used to be done on paper and there is no such thing as a database there. Trying to get that setup and right now I am only familiar with access not sql. We are using the approval workflows, but it also has to have a valid signature for IRS purposes. > In that scenario, where you have Excel users and InfoPath and you want to > share data between, best practice is to have a common database. [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> >> as >> >> sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. Also one other thing, I hope it will work There are two option buttons, if the user choose option # it will change view for certain fields, and same for the other option button #2. My question is, as long as the rule applies to switch view and the user fills out the fields and they save the form, it will stay that way when the next person opens the form to view it and apply a signature? > In that scenario, where you have Excel users and InfoPath and you want to > share data between, best practice is to have a common database. [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> >> as >> >> sometimes they have to do 2 different documents for a job. |
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