InfoPath 2007, SharePoint 2007, and Nintex Workflow 2007

  • Thread starter Tiffany - Billing Coord/Report Developer
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Tiffany - Billing Coord/Report Developer

I have created a form in InfoPaththat I have uploaded to make accessible on
SharePoint. The user clicks a link that brings up the form (for adjustment
requests that go to the accounting department), fills it out, attaches
documentation for the request, and then clicks on submit. This then creates
an item in the forms library, which enables a different department
(accounting) to bring it up after all approvals to edit fields the first user
did not see (such as account numbers). After the item is created, a
Nintex-based workflow is started and approvals are requested depending on
certain field values.

The main problem is that when Nintex sends the approval requests, I need for
the attachments from the first user to be available on the approval requests.
Since this doesn't go through the standard SharePoint approval mechanism, I
can't seem to figure out how to get the attachment to transfer from the form
to the sharepoint list item that is created so that it can be included in the
workflow (attachments are enabled on the list). The form is not submitted by
email, but rather through SharePoint.

For this reason, the other links I've seen in somewhat similar posts do not
work because I'm not using an email submission form. Or maybe I'm just
misunderstanding? I am getting the same error when publishing to SharePoint
from InfoPath as I've seen mentioned previously (The selected field cannot be
promoted because its data bype is not supported: base64binary.) but don't
think the solutions posted apply to exactly the way I need this to work.

Help!
 
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Don Reamey

The main problem is that when Nintex sends the approval requests, I need
for
the attachments from the first user to be available on the approval
requests.

Is the approval request an InfoPath form or is this part of the Nintex work
flow?

Attachements are stored directly in the XML of the form encoded as base 64.
If you work flow process allows using code you could write something that
did an XPath to the field where the attachement is stored, pull it out, then
convert from base 64.

--
Don Reamey
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer
InfoPath Forms Server
http://blogs.officezealot.com/dreamey


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