Merging Forms

[Martyn Lawson]

Ref: InfoPath 2003 SP1 with WSS 2.0 SP1

Hi,

I have two form libraries in SharePoint, both based on the Absence Request
sample form. However, I plan to use one of them for Employees to 'request' a
Holiday and the other to be a 'summary' of their requests.

I planned to achieve this by having people fill out a form in the 'Requests'
library and then allowing the Admin dept to merge them into the master
'summary' form for each individual. This appears to work perfectly. However,
the problem comes when the Request form is deleted from the library as this
prevents the corresponding summary form being opened.

Is there a way to 'permanently' merge the documents so that the request form
can be deleted?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Martyn...

 

[Scott Roberts [MSFT]]

Are you referring to the form template being deleted from the form library?
If so, then yes, you will need to keep that around. The form template is
needed even after the form is merged. If you are referring to the form file
(XML file) then you can delete that after the forms are merged.

Thanks,
Scott