Automating data merge

[Ken Morris]

I have one form template based on an XML Schema being used by several folks
to fill in some needed data. Typically they fill in and save one form per
one file in a specified directory. I've provided a couple of simple batch
files they can use. One to add a new form / file (which opens InfoPath from
the command line for input using the required form template and specifies the
default save location using the directory we desire). The other script is
for merging all the forms (via globbing all the xml files in the specified
directory) into a single 'complete' file/form that can then be used to view
the data via IE using dhtml and msxml technologies.

I know, unfortunately that InfoPath can't be used from the command line to
completely automate this merging process, since a 'default' form is inserting
prior to merging actual existing forms, and the /aggregate and /new switches
don't work together as I had hoped to actually merge the data and save the
merged result using the filename given in the argument to the /new switch.

Does anyone one know of a way I can actually do an automated merge using
InfoPath from the command line or do you have to use a Perl script, or other
script that supports xml parsing, to automate a merge like this without using
InfoPath???

 

[Madhuri Nishanker Rao]

Hi
Check out this link ,this may help you:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ry/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab11.asp