Versioning of InfoPath form in SharePoint 2007

[Evelyn]

Hi,

I've an info path form library on my sharepoint portal and I would like to
update my info path forms, but I do not want to update my existing forms. So
I did the following:

Form Options -> Versioning -> Do nothing(existing forms might not work
propertly)

Afterward I published the template to my sharepoint library. Unfortunately
the whole thing doesn't work and the existring forms have been updated, too.

Is therer another possibility to update infopath forms (but do not update
any existing files)?

Thanks in advance,
Evelyn

 

[Clay Fox]

Typically you would either make an update to the form template that would not
break existing forms. if it did then you would want to create a new library
for the form and diverge the two so you could keep each functioning.

 

[Evelyn]

Thanks for your reply.
It's not in our customers mind to create a new library on every change of a
template.
Is there a way to solve my problem programmatically...e.g. on creating an
own form library?

 

[Clay Fox]

Well if you want a seperate library for each user that would be different.
You could submit documents to different libraries from the same template or
more often people just have different views of one library.
If you have a need for security of forms however than that creates a
different set of issues.

If you want maybe email me from here.
http://www.infopathdev.com/members/clayfox.aspx
I could show you a couple examples of how you can secure your forms and give
each user there own space without the hassle of having to republish or create
a library for each user.