infopath version control

[seamus]

It is brilliant that Infopath automatically upgrades the form for you when
you open it. Very often, though, this is not desired to be automatic. In an
audited environment you want to keep a historical record of the form that was
completed and approved. Using an example that perhaps everyone will
understand, say a purchase order request once needed to be approved by two
people, but now it needs to only be approved by one, so we change the
template to reflect this. This doesn't change the fact that it is important
to know the two people that approved all the old purchase orders. So ms. user
is happily using the new template for current orders.. and now she wants to
open one of the old orders to see what happened.

What I want to know, is if anyone knows the easiest way to open an old form
using the old version of the form template file and offer the user the option
to upgrade the form to the newest version of the template. So that when the
old infopathform.xml file is opened it looks the same as the day it was
created. BUT if the user choses to upgrade it, it looks like today's latest
template.

Thanks

Seamus

 

[Clay Fox]

They would need to be seperate templates or you would have to build the logic
into the form to handle all scenarios properly.