Infopath data connection to sharepoint: how to avoid hard coded list id?
I've created a infopath 2010 form with a connection to a SP list. This connection allows me to populate a drop down list. This is working as expected if I work on an existing site.
Now I want to publish this form as a task form of a workflow feature. the workflow is part of a site template that also defines some list instances. As list instances have new IDs each time they are creat开发者_Go百科ed, the form data connection won't work (listID and spweb absolute url are hard coded in the data connection in the xsf file).
Is there a clean way to allow me to populate a DDL in infopath without the actual list id ? In fact, can I bind to "lists/mylist" instead of {myguid} ?
thx
(angry against Microsoft for using guids everywhere without the ability to control them).
I finally followed this approach :
- In my forms, I converted the data sources to datasources shared in the host sp site. This generated for me the udcx files.
- Then, I created, in VS 2010, a feature with a module to provision a DataConnection library, holding all this udcx files. In this udcx file, I replaced the GUID with tokens like $listguid$ or $weburl$
- I also wrote a feature receiver to replace, after provisioning the module, my tokens with the actual values
quite painful and very disappointed with this big holes in SP development processes
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