Wednesday 4 April 2007

MOSS Enterprise Form Service

If you are in an corporate environment, you will be very likely to use MOSS Enterprise edition , which offers web representation of your InfoPath forms. So users won't have to have InfoPath client installed on local machine. A thin-client infrastructure comes to realization by this technology.

So in order to enable this feature, go to central admin-> Operation ->Upgrade and Migration ->Enable Enterprise Features , then you need to input the product key for enterprise license. This would be a one way trip, you cannot revert back to standard edition once you have your MOSS enterprise enabled. After this, you will see an extra section in your Application Management tab called "InfoPath Forms Services ", click the link in this section called "Configure InfoPath Forms Services", make sure "Allow users to browser-enable form templates " and "Render form templates that are browser-enabled by users " are ticked so now you can have browser-enabled infopath form published to your MOSS site. Do be aware that not all the infopath forms functionality are provided in this kind of web forms, such as complicated validation warning, placeholder message in control... I will keep this coming once I get a clear idea on what the catches are so you will decide if you really need this or not.

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