InfoPath forms and SQL Server Reporting Services

Hi,

I recently worked on a report project having InfoPath form in SharePoint’s InfoPath library as it’s Data Source.

For understanding purpose let’s start with a very simple InfoPath form having two text boxes in it named txtFirstName and txtLastName.

Let’s first define a Data Source for our report.

Name:- InfoPathDataSource

Type:- XML

Connection String : (Suppose the url for our InfoPath library is following

http://nrana-1710-vm1:2575/Sample/Forms/AllItems.aspx and the name of the InfoPath form is PersonalInfo.

So in this case our connection string would be

http://nrana-1710-vm1:2575/Sample/PersonalInfo.xml

Now let’s create a new DataSet having InfoPathDataSource as its data source.

Name :- InfoPathDataSet

Data source :- InfoPathDataSource

Command Type :- Text

Query String :-  ( For defining query string we need to first open up the PersonalInfo.xml file. Paste the following url in IE http://nrana-1710-vm1:2575/Sample/PersonalInfo.xml and download and open the xml file.

Suppose this is the content of the PersonalInfo.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?mso-infoPathSolution
name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:Sample:-myXSD-2010-05-26T09-16-03"
solutionVersion="1.0.0.10"
productVersion="12.0.0.0"
PIVersion="1.0.0.0"
href="http://nrana-1710-vm1:2575/Sample/Forms/template.xsn"?>
<?mso-application
progid="InfoPath.Document"
versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.2"?>

<my:myFields xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2010-05-26T09:16:03" xml:lang="en-US">
    <my:txtFirstName>Nishant </my:txtFirstName>
    <my:txtLastName>Rana</my:txtLastName>
</my:myFields>

The  Query String to retrieve First and Last name value would be

<Query xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2010-05-26T09:16:03"
xmlns:xd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003" xml:lang="en-us">
    <ElementPath>
        my:myFields           
    {
        my:txtFirstName(String),
        my:txtLastName(String)       
    }
    </ElementPath>
</Query>

We also define a parameter in our data set to which we would pass the url to the infopath form i.e.

http://nrana-1710-vm1:2575/Sample/PersonalInfo.xml

That’s it, now if we run the query we can get values for first name and last name.

In case if your InfoPath xml form is looks like this

<my:myFields xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2010-05-12T05:10:51" xml:lang="en-US">
    <my:group1>
        <my:group2>
            <my:field1>2</my:field1>
            <my:field2>nishu</my:field2>………….

Than the Element Path of Query String would be like

<ElementPath>
        my:myFields/my:group1/my:group2          
    {
        my:field1(String),
        my:field2(String)       
    }
    </ElementPath>

Bye…