How to Publish InfoPath Form as a Content type in a SharePoint Site

In order for you to work with InfoPath Form Templates, you first need to know how to publish InfoPath Form as a Content Type in your SharePoint collection. This is the very first step we should know as a SharePoint newbie like me. 

Templates in SharePoint is also important especially if we want to interact with Database and we don't want to create items in our SharePoint Library every time we have a transaction, and in situations where we just have to update values in database that does not require tracking of the changes.

The following steps is just the beginning of the 3-step process 1. Publishing InfoPath Form as a Content type in a SharePoint Site; 2. Setting up the Form Template Library to Make InfoPath Form template; and 3. Creating Site Pages in a SharePoint Site) on how to do we set up Form Template.

Publishing InfoPath Form as a Content type in a SharePoint Site

Step 1: Click on the File Menu> Publish> and then choose SharePoint Server> (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1.

Step 2: Choose the radio button "Site Content Type (advanced). > Click Next to proceed. See Figure 2.

Figure 2.

Step 3:  You must Create a new content type by choosing the radio button "Create a new content type." Click Next to proceed. See Figure 3 below.

Figure 3.

Step 4: Give your content type a Name (highlighted with red in the figure below) and a description (optional), then proceed by clicking Next. See Figure below.

Figure 4.

Step 5: Click on "Browse" to specify the location of your template. (Figure 5.)

Figure 5.

Step 6: choose the Library where you want to published your form template, in this case, we will publish it to "Form Templates" library (See Figure 6.), Click "Open" to go inside the library

Figure 6.

Step 7: Put a name of your new template and then hit the "Save" button. (See the screen shot below)

Figure 7.

Step 8: Finally, you can add or remove some fields which will be available as columns in your SharePoint site. It is up to you want you want to add or what you want to remove. (See Figure 8 below)

Figure 8.

Those are the eight simple steps on publishing your InfoPath Forms as a Content Type in a SharePoint Site.

If you want to proceed in learning how to use our newly published Form Template, follow our next tutorial on setting up your library in getting ready for used as a template.