Force InfoPath to open in browser, from Tasks Hyperlink

Question

My project team has created an InfoPath form for gathering information related to IT requests.

In the workflow we have created "Collect data from user" tasks.

When the user clicks on the hyperlink associated to the form in question, it launches the form in InfoPath if they have it installed.

We wish to override this, and have our forms load in the browser, just like an individual who dosen't have InfoPath installed on their computer.

I have seen blogs, in which you can append ?OpenIn=Browser to the end of the URL, but I am unsure where I am exactly suppose to do this.

Any other possible suggestions or solutions?

Edited:

What I orginally wanted to created was a feature only available for InfoPath. I thought something like this would exist for browser forms but I was mistaken.

Answer 1

That OpenIn=Browser is correct.

You need to have it in the link that user clicks on to open the form. In addition to OpenIn=Browser, you can use Source=SOMEURL, it will also open the form in browser and after closing the form, user is redirected to the Source URL.

Example:

<a href="http://servername/sites/SiteCollection/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=~sitecollection/FormLibrary/Forms/template.xsn&SaveLocation=~sitecollection/FormLibrary&Source=~sitecollection/FormLibrary">CLICK HERE TO FILL IN THE FORM</a>

Will open the form in browser, and redirect user to ~sitecollection/FormLibrary after closing the form.

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Answer 2

You could try the solutions outlined here, but it might not work given that your link is autogenerated in a task. You will not be able to append ?OpenIn=Browser either for the same reason.

Other users seem to have run into this problem, one solution is oultine here. It's a bit involved though.

See also this MSDN Article

Edit: Collect Data is a simple task is not an editable task subprocess. You can still get to the custom task's display form (if you edit the custom task's Content Type in SPD) and specify your own deployed aspx page. In there, it would be possible to directly insert javascript to rewrite the link and append OpenIn=Browser. This would affect that task type only.