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Published InfoPath Form Not Appearing in SharePoint
Mercedes,
In the IP form, in the form settings, if you go to the Compatibility category and check if it is set for Web Browser form? And when you walked through the publish wizard, you checked the box allow this form to be filled out on the web? When it doesn't work, do you mean if you go to your library and say new document, what happens? It doesn't open your web form? It should have updated the content type in the library with the form template, and show the IP icon on the new dropdown.
I just tested this by creating a form library, opening IP Designer and creating a library form, creating submit data connection and publishing to the forms library. It opens fine in the browser. And no I don't believe it should take 24 hours to show. It sounds like it's not getting fully wired into the content type of the library, or the form isn't truly a web form.
I think I just may be confused on exactly what publishing a form to Sharepoint is? I assumed if I created a form then published it, the user would see the "form" ie the Form Name that they could click on, the form opens in a browser and they fill it out. I foresee many forms listed in this form library that I could then either use folders or Content Types to filter, however, I can't even get one to show.
After I've published it, the "form" file does not show in my library. If I go to New > Form it then opens the form I published, which doesn't make sense. I"m not creating a new form I want to fill in the one I published.
As well, if I uploaded a bunch of test ones, where are they listed so I can delete them?
Hi Mercedes,
Ok so there are a few things here. When you create a form library and you create an InfoPath form and publish to it, you are creating a template for users to fill out when they want to create and submit a form. Every single list and library in SharePoint uses content types, whether you see them or not. You just may not be using custom ones. When you publish your IP form template, you are updating the template of the default Form content type in the Form document library.
Then to use it, users just go to the library and click New -> Form and the web form should open, they fill out and submit it. This is all assuming that the IP form has a submit data connection. This is all assuming you want the generated output to a submitted form file in a library. You can have a list and customize with InfoPath, though the current strongly recommended way is PowerApps. Do you see your form if you click New -> Form? When you publish, you will not see your template in your library. That is behind the scenes in the content type as a template. Only forms submitted with your template will show as documents in the Forms library. Hope that helps.
This is the confusing part: "Then to use it, users just go to the library and click New -> Form and the web form should open, they fill out and submit it. "
I have one library. Can I not have 5-6 forms in it? When they click on New > Form, where do they pick which of the 5-6 forms I've created before filling it out?
"This is all assuming you want the generated output to a submitted form file in a library. "
We don't want any of the "filled in data" to be saved in SharePoint. I have a simple form with a Submit (submit is to email) that we want users to fill in that are emailed to different people, depending on the the form.
"Do you see your form if you click New -> Form? " When I click on New > Form it just opens the last form I uploaded.
Here is what I just did as a test. I created Test and Test 2 forms (well I guess they are templates as there is no way to create a single form with IP). I published BOTH to the same library in SP called FillableForms. When I go into Site Contents, FillableForms show 0 items. When I go File > New Form It opens Test2 form. Where is Test 1? What if I have 10 forms I need to be available to be filled in?
I don't understand why this is so complicated with Microsoft. If I owned Adobe Acrobat Pro, I would create the fillable form with a submit button to email, save as as pdf, then drag and drop the pdf to a library in SharePoint. Done. Simple. Easy. Separate forms listed as separate files. Why can't we do the same?
Verified that yes the form properties are set to "web browser form."
Attached are the items checked on the wizard. I don't know where the "form settings" are in IP but when saved it's saved as "infopath web browser form template" but since I'm publishing the type that I save doesn't matter.
When I say it doesn't work means I just published it to a library and the form is not there ie if I'm publishing it, how does a user fill it out if it's not added to the library? When I browse that library, I should see this form I just published.
We don't use content types currently in SP as we are all folders still. I simply want the form to show in the forms library list so a user can open it and fill it out.
