Open InfoPath Filler form from hyperlink

Question

_{Friday, October 4, 2013 1:31 PM}

I have an InfoPath Filler form that I would like users to be able to open from a) a hyperlink in a links list and b) a hyperlink on an image in a CEWP.

At present I have set this up so the hyperlink attempts to open the form template (published as a site content type), however when the user clicks on the hyperlink IE displays the option to Open / Save / Cancel the opening of the form. I do not want users to start saving copies of the template so this is unacceptable. I want the hyperlink to open a blank InfoPath Filler form ready to be filled out. I'd like to do this for InfoPath forms that are published either directly to the form library and as a site content type. For a form published directly to the form library, this would be the same action as clicking 'Add Document' - but as this opens InfoPath I'm unable to use a URL in my hyperlink because I never get the chance to see a URL.

• I'm using SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010.
• Documents are set to open in their default client.
• The default client for .xsn and .xml files is InfoPath.
• I'm using Internet Explorer 9 (the organisation default).
• Browser File Handling is set to permissive.
• I tried unchecking 'Enable Protected mode' in IE9, this produced no different results so i turned it back on.

I hope there's an out of the box solution for this as I don't know how to code in SharePoint.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Ben.

All replies (5)

_{Monday, October 7, 2013 6:27 AM}

Hi,

1. Follow this article to publish an InfoPath 2010 form to Form Library in SharePoint 2010.

http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.in/2011/10/publish-infopath-2010-form-to-form.html

2. The hyperlink for new document button of a forms library should be:

http://{server}/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?xsnLocation=http://{fullpath to the library}/forms/template.xsn?DefaultItemOpen=1

And we can open the InfoPath form template directly in browser by clicking the link.

Thanks.

Tracy Cai
TechNet Community Support

_{Monday, October 7, 2013 7:50 AM}

Thanks for the response Tracy. Unfortunately this link hasn't worked - it still prompts me to either open/save/cancel when I click on the link.

My form is published as an InfoPath filler form, therefore I do not have the option to open the form in the browser, and wish for the form to open in InfoPath Filler 2010.

_{Friday, January 3, 2014 3:32 PM}

Any solution for this problem?

I have same one! create hyperlink to xsn and form to be opened in InfoPath filler !

_{Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:36 PM | 1 vote}

This is a much easier way to capture the URL: 

After creating your list & subsequent InfoPath form; you now want to create a hyperlink to open the form directly in a window – WITHOUT having to click “Add New Item”

1. Go to your list & Click on “Add New Item"
2. Once the InfoPath form opens, click somewhere on the form itself, then right-click your mouse and choose properties.
3. Now in that pop-up window copy the URL, this is what you need to use in your hyperlink (can either be verbiage OR a clickable graphic); ==> Be sure to highlight the full URL, this may require that you ‘scroll over to the right to capture the whole URL

_{Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:25 PM | 1 vote}

This worked for me. 

Get your url to be the following:

 javascript:createNewDocumentWithProgID(escapeProperlyCore('http://testserver/sites/demo/form1/Forms/template.xsn', true), 'http://testserver/sites/demo/form1/', 'SharePoint.OpenXMLDocuments', true)

Replace the urls with your own.  Then use <a href="<above url>">Click here</a>

Yanling