Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label InfoPath

Solving SharePoint error "This form cannot be opened in a Web browser. To open this form, use Microsoft InfoPath"

The error when you try opening your items [in a SharePoint Library] created through Nintex Workflow with a Correlation ID:   95b98d9d-5b21-60e1-f907-80a67d61c809 Before trying to make any changes to the normal settings of your InfoPath Forms and your SharePoint Library where error occurs, be sure to let your SharePoint Administrator look at the error logs first using the correlation ID for you to look deeper regarding the error because this error happens in various scenarios and sometimes, it can be fixed by just tweaking the settings in your InfoPath Form settings r your SharePoint Libraries. ALSO READ:  Regular expression to validate email address field in InfoPath

Regular Expression to Validate Email Address in InfoPath Forms 2013

Condition in InfoPath 2013 Email Validation There is a simple and easy way to validate email address in your InfoPath fields, its a default regular expression in your InfoPath rules. Its regular expression is just ".+@.+(\.)+" without the double quotes in it. Well, I dunno how to read regular expression but I think it just allows period before and after the @ symbol and also look for that @ symbol and that's it. (See figure below)

Setting up Form Template Library to make InfoPath Form Template

This is the second of the three step series on how to make and publish an InfoPath Form Template. We've already covered the first step on how to publish an InfoPath Form as a Content Type and we're now touching the second  which is to set up our library, and finally the third step on how do we create a site pages in a SharePoint site. The first thing we'll gonna do is to go to the library where we've published our form then follow the steps below: STEP 1. Click on Library Tab> Library Settings> (Under General Settings) Click Advanced Settings. [See Figure 1 Below] Figure 1 STEP 2. Look for the radio button that says "Allow management of content types? " and select "YES"> Click OK at the Bottom. [See Figure 2 Below] Figure 2 STEP 3. Go Back to Library Settings and Click on the " Add from existing site content types " [Figure 3] Figure 3 STEP 4. Select the name of your content type created during the...

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 S...

Solving InfoPath "the form has been closed" on form submit

The Prompt after Submitting the Form instead of redirecting to the form library I recently encounter this issue after publishing and testing my InfoPath 2010 form published in a SharePoint 2013 site library. As opposed to my other published forms, this specific form is throwing a prompt that says " the form has been closed " after submitting the form instead of redirecting to the library. After browsing the internet, I have been to this blog post which mentions about the caused they found out after raising the issue to Microsoft. According to them, the reason might be because of the same IDs of the controls which happens if we are copy pasting controls to the same views or others views. Here's the link of the source who raised this issue to Microsoft That is probably true because I have copied a particular view and used it in another view, and when I checked the control ID, it was the same with the control ID from where I copied it. Altho...