In January, 2014 the announcement that Microsoft InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client sent shock waves around the SharePoint community. They stated that ‘…we’re retiring InfoPath and investing in new forms technology across SharePoint, Access, and Word. This means that InfoPath 2013 is the last release of the desktop client, and

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How to create an Employee vacation request form (with approval) using SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and Workflow

For our on-Premise SharePoint 2013 site, we needed to be able to prevent users from viewing other people’s submitted leave requests forms.  In addition, we needed to prevent users from modifying their own forms after submission.  The final requirement that we had was that the forms were not to be moved to a different library

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Changing Views Available to End Users on Forms Library in SharePoint 2013

Yesterday we had an issue reported by a few users that the InfoPath form library would just not open on a few desktops only, for the sake of information all other users and the effected ones were using IE 8 and InfoPath 2010. There was no difference in the environments. What would happen is if

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InfoPath 2010 gives “A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program. “

Now that Microsoft has officially announced that InfoPath 2013 will be the last version, this adds a dilemma for those customers wanting to select a forms technology that’s future proof. After all, if you pick InfoPath now, it’s probably not going to be supported on SharePoint 2016. (That’s a guess on the name). Anyway, so

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InfoPath Forms Alternatives

(cross-posted from my blog at http://sharepointduffbert.com/2013/09/04/fixing-the-infopath-cannot-open-the-following-file-xxxxxx-the-parameter-is-incorrect-problem/) My SharePointBuddy (SPB) recently ran into an issue on an InfoPath form she was working on. Someone went in to try and update the form, and they received the following error: This wasn’t a form we wanted to recreate from scratch, yet most attempts to fix it weren’t giving the

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Fixing the “InfoPath cannot open the following file: xxxxxx The parameter is incorrect” problem…