Submit Error

[D]

I have created a form for a school that I was able to publish to the school's
web server. Now I would like people within the school district to be able to
access the published form and then submit it back to the same web server. I
have "enabled submit commands and buttons" I chose "submit to web server" and
typed in the URL of where the folder is on the server that I want the
submitted forms to be saved it.
The error message I get is
"InfoPath cannot submit the form.
Method Not Allowed
The download of the specified resource has failed."

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

Thank you,
D

 

[Adam Harding]

D

Submission can be instanted in one of three ways. Via a WEB SERVICE, not a
folder on a web server, as an email message OR via a databse OR Via HTTP or
custom submits, what you are wanting to effect is save I am guessing, go into
tools, form options , and enable the save effect so the save icon is not
greyed out when filling it in.

Cheers, Adam

 

[D]

We were really hoping to be able to have the forms submit to our web server,
an http address, so that employees could access the forms from home too. I'm
starting to see that maybe this is not possible and maybe that is not what it
means to submit by HTTP?

Thank you for your help!

 

[Adam Harding]

I think you read HTTP as Sharepoint style sites

We were really hoping to be able to have the forms submit to our web server,
an http address, so that employees could access the forms from home too. I'm
starting to see that maybe this is not possible and maybe that is not what it
means to submit by HTTP?

Thank you for your help!

 

[D]

You are right, I wasn't thinking it through. Thank you so much for putting
me on the right track. The form has to pass through three people so I think
we are going to go with the email option and then have the last person save
it to a shared drive.

Thank you so much!

 

[Adam Harding]

Ever thought of a database instead, it could record the information at each
stage and then finalise it on the last step.

Cheers Adam

 

[D]

I was thinking of that route but the form as two places for attachements and
I don't thing a database will accomodate attachements, right?

 

[Adam Harding]

Yes, however, don't have THOSE fields submit onto the datasource, just keep
them in the form itself.

So, create all fields except the attachment fields in your dbase, then click
on my fields and add an additional group that does not link to the database.
Then add the fields for the attachments in there and they will not submit to
the database, drop me a mail and i will show you what i mean.

Cheers Adam

 

[D]

I would appreciate if you could show me what you mean.....but I don't know
how to "drop you a mail". Do you mean email?

-D

 

[Adam Harding]

Yep

to (e-mail address removed)

I would appreciate if you could show me what you mean.....but I don't know
how to "drop you a mail". Do you mean email?

-D