Working with InfoPath Files in Non-Windows Environments

Designing and Implementing Business Process Models : Implementing E-form Support for BPM : Implementing E-forms : Microsoft Office InfoPath Implementation Considerations : Working with InfoPath Files in Non-Windows Environments

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InfoPath is a Windows-only application. If your organization is working in a Windows-only environment, this should pose no problems. However, if portions of your webMethods product suite are running on other operating systems, such as UNIX or Linux, you may face some limitations.

For example, it should be possible to trigger a business process running on a UNIX system with an InfoPath e-form that arrives in the instances folder of your repository, assuming you have correctly imported the e-form template, created an IS document type, and configured the business process to use it.

However, if a user working on a non-Windows operating system downloads an InfoPath e-form from a task, it will not be possible for the user to actually work with the e-form in that environment, as the InfoPath application can only run in a Windows environment.

Therefore, if you plan to enable users to download InfoPath e-forms, work with them in their local environment, and then upload them back to a task, you must ensure that those users log on to My webMethods from a Windows operating system.

Software AG Designer and the run-time components (Integration Server, Process Engine, and Task Engine) can be implemented on non-Windows operating systems even when used with InfoPath e-forms.

Important:

If you are running your installation of My webMethods Server/Task Engine on a UNIX or Linux platform, you must install version 1.2 or later of the cabextract utility into /usr/bin (or create a link to it within /usr/bin) on your My webMethods Server system to enable proper operation between the Task Engine and InfoPath e-forms. For further information about this utility, see http://www.cabextract.org.uk/.

InfoPath e-form templates and instances can be stored in My webMethods Server configured as a JSR-170 repository, running in a non-Windows operating system.

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