Hey there,
I'm a bit stuck on a problem I'm having with InfoPath and Office 365 SharePoint Online that I'm hoping someone might have some insight on.
I have a InfoPath 2013 form that is setup to be run on and submit to a SharePoint Form Library as part of a larger SharePoint workflow.
I can publish the form to SharePoint and when I click new in the form library a new form is created as expected. Once I've completed the form I am able to save the form, give it a file name and close it and it immediately shows up in the form list, everything
is working perfectly.
However, I don't want the submitters setting their own file name and from a UX perspective I'd like to remove the ribbon altogether and just have a submit button at the bottom of the form and let InfoPath generate a filename based on a predefined convention.
The problem is that when I use the submit functionality — regardless of whether I do it from the Submit button on the ribbon or through the custom button — everything seems to work but the form just vanishes. I never got an error, I saw the 'submitting data
to server' message very briefly, from everything I can see the form should have saved perfectly but it just isn't there.
It's almost as if the form is being saved somewhere on SharePoint but not in the right location but I've been all through the teamsite and I've done a bunch of searching and I can't find any trace of it anywhere.
I've checked the data connection a dozen times, I've even rebuilt the form entirely once or twice and every time save works fine but submit just disappears.
I've also discussed this issue with our developer working on the workflow and he can't think of anything on his end that would cause this to happen.
Any ideas? I really appreciate any help you can give! Thanks!
Details:
- InfoPath 2013
- Form has 50 fields, though only half of them are bound to a form element yet.
- There are currently two views but the problem occurs if I just have the single default.
- Office 365/SharePoint Online
- Typical form library on a subsite on a dev teamsite.
Chris White