Send to Mail Recipient: Instead of html content i suddenly get an xml attachment -how to get back to

[Jan D'Hondt]

Hi,

This problem occurs with infopath and infopath xml files stored on a
sharepoint server.

Beforehand , when I opened the xml file from the server , Infopath
showed me the form with the data. Then after clicking on 'Send to Mail
Recipient' the infopath form shows the email recipient, subject
subject boxed together with the infoapth form rendered as html an
dwith a button to send the email. Looks like the outlook new mail
dialogbox is embedded in the infopath window.

As of now, when i click 'Send to Mail Recipient' a separate Outlook
new mail window with my Infopath form attached as an xml file.

what I want is the old situation where the form is rendered as html
and can be read by anyone, recipients are not required to have
Infopath installed.
In the new situation if I send the email with the xml attachment,
recipients are required to have Infopath installed, which is not very
convenient.

Can someone please explain to me how I get back to the old situation?

tnx

Jan D'Hondt

 

[Jerry Thomas [MSFT]]

We send an HTML 'snapshot' of the current view and then attach the xml to
the mail message.
That way if the recipient has InfoPath and has access to the xsn, then they
use that form. If they don't, they see the view that you were on.

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Microsoft Office InfoPath
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[Jan D'Hondt]

Jerry,

The question is: something that used to work in infopath (and that was
simple to explain to the user that wants to sent the email.
- the user with the infopath form clicks on 'Send to Mail to
Recipient'
- in his Infopath form he now sees the textboxes for rtecipient
subject
- the infopath form with data gets rendered as html in the email body.
- the user sends the data to anyone he wanst (these people do not need
infopath ) they just need to read the html

Suddenly this has stopped working on my pc
- when I click on 'Send to Mail to Recipient' a 2nd window gets
opened: the outlook email window. In this window the email body is
empty and the infopath data is attached as an xml file.

My question is: how do I get back to how it used to work?

Jan D'Hondt

We send an HTML 'snapshot' of the current view and then attach the xml to
the mail message.
That way if the recipient has InfoPath and has access to the xsn, then they
use that form. If they don't, they see the view that you were on.

--
Jerry Thomas[MSFT]
<[email protected]>
Microsoft Office InfoPath
---------------------------------------
This posting is provided "As Is" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script sample are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm.
Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for
newsgroup purposes only.

Hi,

This problem occurs with infopath and infopath xml files stored on a
sharepoint server.

Beforehand , when I opened the xml file from the server , Infopath
showed me the form with the data. Then after clicking on 'Send to Mail
Recipient' the infopath form shows the email recipient, subject
subject boxed together with the infoapth form rendered as html an
dwith a button to send the email. Looks like the outlook new mail
dialogbox is embedded in the infopath window.

As of now, when i click 'Send to Mail Recipient' a separate Outlook
new mail window with my Infopath form attached as an xml file.

what I want is the old situation where the form is rendered as html
and can be read by anyone, recipients are not required to have
Infopath installed.
In the new situation if I send the email with the xml attachment,
recipients are required to have Infopath installed, which is not very
convenient.

Can someone please explain to me how I get back to the old situation?

tnx

Jan D'Hondt

 

[GGian]

I too would appreciate a response to this question.

Is there any sort of fix for when "Send to Mail Recipient" does not include
a preview of the form in the body of the email? When i perform this function,
the "snapshot" is not shown, only a file attachment.

thank you

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

No, unfortunately the two options of the Email Submit adapater and the File
menu's Send to Mail Recipient are quite different. The email submit adapter
will contain the XML attachment and no HTML body of the mail. The Send to...
command contains the XML attachment and the HTML preview.

You might be able to make your scenario work a little smoother if you are
willing to write script to show the mail envelope when the user clicks a
button, and then create the To: and Subject lines in script. The user will
still have to click send.

Brian

 

[GGian]

Thanks for the quick response Brian. The problem I was having was that even
when I used the "Send to Mail Recipient" feature, an HTML snapshot would not
be attached. I tracked the problem down to the fact that i had previously
applied the "Send to Mail Recipient" fix suggested in:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=835738

Apparently, when this is applied, the "Send to Mail Recipient" feature seems
to run in a different manor, because once i removed it, the whole ting
functioned differently. I had originally applied it because i wasnt running
outlook2003 but now i am. anyway, thanks for the help and maybe this will
help Jan too.