InfoPath Template Versions?

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Jeff Richardson - 11 May 2006 00:30 GMT

Is there a way to keep the old versions of the InfoPath template (xsn) in
the SharePoint forms library so that forms created with on old version will
always open with the old template and new forms will be created with the new
template?

Thanks in advance!

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Ben Walters - 11 May 2006 00:52 GMT

Jeff,
The best way I could think of doing this is when you publish a new version
of the form include the version number in the form name. This way you'll get
a new form included in the form library each time you publish.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Ben

> Is there a way to keep the old versions of the InfoPath template (xsn) in
> the SharePoint forms library so that forms created with on old version will
> always open with the old template and new forms will be created with the new
> template?
>
> Thanks in advance!

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Jeff Richardson - 11 May 2006 21:53 GMT

Thank you for your reply.

When I try to publish my form to a Forms Library, InfoPath does not ask me
for the form's name just the name of the forms library. Publishing always
names the template of the form as 'template.xsn'.

I can get most of what I want by not using a Forms Library at all and use
two Document Libraries instead. One to contain the form templates with
different version numbers and the other to contain the filled out forms.
The only problem is that can not show some of the forms fields as columns in
the document library as you can with Forms Libraries.

Has anyone figured out a way to store multiple .xsn files in the Form
Library's 'Forms' directory?

> Jeff,
> The best way I could think of doing this is when you publish a new version
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>>
>> Thanks in advance!

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