Basic Form design from a Browser

[Chris]

The requirement is for a user to be able to perform some simple infopath form
design in a browser. This will likely be in the form of making available a
number of custom controls designed using the Infopath 2007 designer. The user
will select the controls required for their form, possibly edit some of the
labels, add/remove options from list boxes and do some simple layout
manipulation (perhaps no more than the order in which the controls render on
the form - in a single column). Once done I need to compile the xsn file and
publish it to a Sharepoint 2007 form library. Any ideas? Is there a form
editor api available, around which I can build some browser ui?

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

You probably mean a form designer API. No, there isn't one available. All
form designing must currently be done in the InfoPath client application.

 

[Chris]

Thanks for that. You are right, I am looking for a form designer API. What I
was hoping at the very least was that there would be a way to reassemble the
xml, xsl and manifest into an xsn file which could then be published to a
Sharepoint library. Is the xsn simply like a cab file? In other words if I
were to build up those three files in comliance with the infopath schema, I
would like to be able to programatically assemble an xsn file and publish it.

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

Yes, the XSN is a CAB file, so if you do not have InfoPath, you could use a
CAB tool to repackage it.