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Force open InfoPath forms in the application
I've been looking for a solution to this issue but it seems pretty specific and most of what I've tried hasn't worked.
I have a SharePoint site where I host an InfoPath form. I plan to email users the link to this program. Unfortunately, when I try to supply a direct link to the InfoPath form I get this error message when it's clicked:
The weird thing is that I've set the SharePoint site to open URL's in the client application and NOT on the web browser.
The closest I've managed to get to forcing the URL to open in InfoPath is adding "ms-infopath:ofe|u|" in front of the URL, but this opens the form in InfoPath Designer and not InfoPath Filler (I need it to open in Filler).
Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions? Appreciate it!
Is your InfoPath form deployed to a form library? Or is it deployed and registered as and Admin Approved form in Central Admin? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/sharepoint-2010/ms772110(v%3Doffice.14) Going to guess you need to do one of these otherwise the InfoPath form won't open in Filler Mode as opposed to Design mode.
