Re: Infopath implementation scenarios

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From: Xerox (anon_at_anon.com)
Date: 01/13/05


Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:58:38 -0000

Tried creating an outlook email file with content set to text/xml and the
body text set to an infopath form but it just rendered it as xml

Found this post which pretty much says its not possible. Real shame.

http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/infopath/56/Infopath-SP1-and-is-there-any-way-to-embed-infopath-into-HTML-as

"Matt Milner" <matt.milner@m3technologypartners dot com> wrote in message
news:O9hP$MR%23EHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> The mime type of the document would be text/xml and I'm sure you could
send
> the document out and use the SMTP encoder component in your pipeline to
make
> it the body of the message. I'm not sure if outlook would render it as
XML
> or use the ProgID to open it up in infopath. I'm guessing you'll just get
> XML, but I could be wrong.
>
> matt
>
>
> "Xerox" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
> news:%23%23X5mNI%23EHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks mate. Are you aware of a technique to make Outlook "embed" the
form
> > within the body of the email rather than have it as an attachment? This
> > would be far better for the users than double clicking the attachment.
> > Perhaps someting akin to the mime type setting: say
application/infopath?
> >
> > "Matt Milner" <matt.milner@m3technologypartners dot com> wrote in
message
> > news:O5EfihD%23EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >> you can send the documen to them, or put it on a web server and have
them
> >> click a link to it. those are probably the easiest solutions.
> >>
> >> You can send the message to the user initializing a correlation set,
then
> >> put a request response port on your orchestration where the receive
> > follows
> >> the correlation set. Make this port public and you can publish it as a
> > web
> >> service.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >>
> >> "Xerox" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
> >> news:OuZZjG99EHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> >I am looking at using InfoPath for soliciting user interaction within
> >> > orchestrations. I am interested to know the different methods of
> >> > implementing InfoPath. Its unlikely we will be using Sharepoint so a
> > more
> >> > basic approach to implementing Infopath will be used. Here is my
> > approach:
> >> >
> >> > Send an xml document with InfoPath processing instructions as an
email
> >> > attachment from BizTalk. The user double clicks the attachment which
> > opens
> >> > InfoPath. They edit the form data and submit it back to the same
> >> > BizTalk
> >> > orchestration that sent it via a published web service. The BizTalk
> >> > orchestration can then continue.
> >> >
> >> > I have some questions:
> >> > 1. Attaching an XML document to an email and expecting users to
double
> >> > click
> >> > it to launch InfoPath seems rather crude. Is there a way to make it
> > easier
> >> > for users?
> >> > 2. How to configure the ports part way through an orchestration to
send
> > an
> >> > xml document and receive a response such that the request/response is
> >> > correlated and can be published as a webservice. Is it possible?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>



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