Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003 Kick Start

Versions of InfoPath Form Templates

Changes in business circumstances over time mean that a need to make one or more changes to InfoPath form templates, other than prototypes, is almost inevitable. The reason for devoting a chapter to updating and modifying InfoPath 2003 form templates is that doing so is often far from easy. The major problems occur when the data source of the form template is modified.

InfoPath 2003 has no facility to easily and automatically modify a form template's data source. That lack of automatic form template modification means that we will need to delve into the structure of several of the files that make up an InfoPath form template.

First, let's look at why updating and modifying an InfoPath form template is much ...