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At last, an official statement from Microsoft that it is retiring InfoPath. Check details here: http://blogs.office.com/2014/01/31/update-on-infopath-and-sharepoint-forms/ InfoPath was good for small deployments, but however, when it comes to enterprise deployment, there were challenges and unpredictable behaviors. Hope MS comes up with more stable and reliable tool.

At last, I've contributed my first ever TechNet Wiki article! I chose my blog post to make it as Wiki article so that people can conrtibute to alternate solutions if any. Going forward, will try to contribute more to SharePoint community.

Sometimes I wonder if InfoPath can be used in a scalable solution. Though I have searched in web for any use cases, I've not seen examples citing InfoPath being used in a scalable deployment. Recently, I too faced a challenge, posted the problem in MSDN forum , but didn't get any solution and then came up with "workaround" to resolve the matter. Considering this could be one of the cases which peple often encounter, I thought of detailing the information in this post. Scenario: 1. Version: SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010. 2. Design an InfoPath form (browser based) and publish it as Farm administrator approved template. 3. Activate this form in a site collection. 4. Add the above form as content type in a document library. 5. Now, it is available for user to fill up the form and save. ----At this point, user has saved the form---- 6. There is a change request for InfoPath form, so go ahead and change the design. 7. Publish again as before. 8. Notice tha...

Versions used in this article: InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Recently, there was a need to use single library to hold multiple InfoPath forms. This was achieved by publishing InfoPath forms as Content Types. Here are simple steps to achieve this. 1.    You need a library which stores forms Content Types. 2.    Publish form as content type. 3.    Add Content type to forms library. 4.    Add different forms using content type. Let me detail it out. 1.    Create a library or use any existing document library to hold the forms content types. 2.    Open InfoPath Designer     a.    Design the form as per your need.     b.    Save the form in your machine.     c.    Go to File->Publish->Select SharePoint Server.     d.    In the wizard, enter your site URL.   ...