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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / November 2006How to load a XML file generated by Infopath to a web page
I need to load the XML file generated by Infopath to a web page(.aspx) and submit it to the server. How can I reach this? The reason why I need to do this based on this scenario: all clients can fill the form but just administrator can submit the content in the form to server. One way to solve this problem is desing an administrator version from with submit function and a client version without submit function, but the problem is administrator version can not read the XML file generated by client version. So I want to load the xml file to a aspx web page and submit it to server, of course, this page just can be opened by administrator. Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! Your scenario is not entirely clear to me. Submitting an InfoPath form to a web page (whether ASP or ASPX or any other kind) is possible by using the option to submit the form to a "Web server (HTTP)" under "Tools > Submitting Forms". The web page will receive the entire form including processing instructions, and you can then extract it as a binary stream within the web page. The part that is not clear to me is how you are going to use the web page thereafter to submit the form to the server. Are you going to save the forms in SQL Server through the web page? What kind of server are you submitting to? --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > I need to load the XML file generated by Infopath to a web page(.aspx) and > submit it to the server. How can I reach this? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure > out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! Sorry for the unclearing description, the scenario is: I have an ASP.NET website used SQL database, visitor of this website can download a form designed by InfoPath from this website and then fill it. But visitor can not submit this form to SQL database by themself, visitor must send the XML file to administrator and administrator will do the submit job after evluation. Two questions: 1, how to just let administrator can submit this form. 2, what is the best way to submit this form with out SharePoint Portal Server? use HTTP, WebService or something else. For the question one, I think can design two forms with the same XML schema, one for visitor, one for administrator. Just administrator version inclding submit logic. The problem is InfoPath will mark the XML file generated by visitor version. when we try to open that XML file through administrator version, we just get an error message. Another solution for question one is we just tread the XML file sent by visitor as a "pure" XML file. we programly retrive the information from this XML file and then submit it to SQL through a ASPX webpage. But I am not very clearly about how to implement this now. Many thanks for your help!! > Your scenario is not entirely clear to me. Submitting an InfoPath form to a > web page (whether ASP or ASPX or any other kind) is possible by using the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure > > out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! Have you already looked into using Roles? And, are you using InfoPath 2003 or 2007? With InfoPath 2007 you can load a form into an InfoPath control that can be hosted either in a Windows or Web application. If you are using InfoPath 2003 and just want to use an .aspx page, the XML files could be stored somewhere on disk, and then the administrator could open each XML file using a File control. Once the XML is loaded within the web page, you can parse it to show the content of relevant form fields on the web page. And after the administrator approves the content, you can just write the originally loaded XML in its entirety to SQL Server. If you have SQL Server 2005, you can use the new XML data type for a field in a table where you will be saving the InfoPath forms in. Perhaps it might be easier to create a WinForms application to load and view the InfoPath forms in and then save them to the SQL database... --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Sorry for the unclearing description, the scenario is: I have an ASP.NET > website used SQL database, visitor of this website can download a form [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > > Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure > > > out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! Many many thanks for your help, your reply has pointed out the way about how to solve this problem. Because I use Infopath 2003 and SQL 2000, loading XML file into HTML form in ASPX page will be good. > Have you already looked into using Roles? And, are you using InfoPath 2003 or > 2007? [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > > > Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure > > > > out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! You're welcome. And good luck! --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Many many thanks for your help, your reply has pointed out the way about how > to solve this problem. [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > > > Because I don't use Sharepoint, this is the most friendly way I can figure > > > > > out, any suggestion weil be apperciated! |
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