way to fill a form

[sam]

Hi all,
Is it a must to have an inforpath installation for filling a form? May I
place the xsn file on a web server and let user fill in the form in browser?

Thanks for any help

 

[Josh Bertsch [MSFT]]

You need InfoPath to fill out forms.

from
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/plan/inpthfaq.mspx:

Q. Do employees need to have InfoPath installed on their PCs in order to
fill out forms created with InfoPath? Is InfoPath required for viewing or
reading an InfoPath form?

A. Information workers will need to have InfoPath 2003 installed on their
PCs to enter information into InfoPath forms and to take advantage of the
rich client functionality such as structural editing, business-logic
validation, rich-text formatting, AutoCorrect, and spell-checking. That
said, you can read an InfoPath form that has been saved to .MHT in your
browser or within an HTML-enabled e-mail client, as the body of your mail
message. Because InfoPath generates XML belonging to any customer-defined
schemas, other software could be used to reuse and display that XML
document.

Q. Do I need to touch every desktop to deploy InfoPath? Can you host an
InfoPath form in the browser?

A. In order to fill out or design an InfoPath form, InfoPath needs to be
installed on the desktop. However, once you have deployed InfoPath, you can
easily roll out the form templates that users need to use InfoPath.
InfoPath provides transparent deployment and maintenance of solutions via a
Web-like model that downloads solutions on demand. InfoPath form templates
are downloaded silently and seamlessly to the client when a user clicks on a
link to an InfoPath form or clicks on an InfoPath attachment.

Other Links:
http://blogs.msdn.com/philoj/archive/2004/03/16/90636.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2004/03/25/96432.aspx

--josh bertsch

 

[sam]

Thanks very much for your quick response.

From your message, this is a must to have infopath to fill up a form. Then
how about viewing a form? Do a viewer need an infopath to view the saved xml
or the MTH. Besides, is it possible for me to post the filled up form (.xml)
with the view (.xsl) as a web page in the web server?

 

[sam]

Sorry, I think I have to refine my question.
If I want to post the filled form as a web page, is it a must to export it
to .MHT? Can the .MHT be edit again by using infopath?

Can I just post the filled form (.xml) with the view (.xsl) to the web
server for viewing? If yes, where should I place it?

 

[sam]

Sorry, I need to refine my question.

If I want to post the filled form as a web page and be viewable through a
browser, is it a must to export to .MHT? After I export the filled form to
..MHT, can I re-edit it by infopath?

If I don't want to export to .MHT, can I simply post the filled form (.xml)
and the view (.xsl) to the web server?


Thanks a lot