Infopath form to Word doc

[Chilired]

Since all users are not comptuer savvy, there are some users that are stuck
on Word. The admins of our group converted performance mangement forms to
Infopath, now another group's user needs the information in Word format. Is
there a way to import the completed Infopath performance forms into Word
(i.e, assembling a master document from all forms created?

 

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

Unfortunately this functionality is not offered by Word. You would have to
export the InfoPath form to a Word document. And since InfoPath does not have
this functionality built into it either, you'll have to program it yourself
by parsing the XML for the InfoPath form and creating a WordML document from
that. In InfoPath 2007 you can write your own exporters to do such things.
However, it does come with an importer for Word; no need to write that
yourself.

 

[AP]

I am tring to do something similar to this. the differance is that i have a
form that emails the xml document. i want it to send it the attachement as a
word document. i know that you need to get it in word print view, i need an
XSLT file somewhere. but i guess you need the infopath SDK which i am also
having trouble with.

any guidance would be greatly appreciated

Aaron

 

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

You need to use automation in both cases, for generating the Word document as
well as the email. Since this question has popped up so often, I'll try to
convert it into a solution and post it on my website.

 

[AP]

what is your website address?

AP

You need to use automation in both cases, for generating the Word document as
well as the email. Since this question has popped up so often, I'll try to
convert it into a solution and post it on my website.

 

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

A possible solution to your scenario has been posted here:
http://enterprise-solutions.swits.n...-send-email-attachment-outlook&c=infopath2003

 

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

Forgot to mention that you needn't open the document in Word to be able to
send it in an email. You just need to create it. So you can delete those
lines of code if your scenario does not require that functionality.

 

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

Addendum: You could try merging the forms in InfoPath and then create a Word
print view from the merged form.