Forms designer forms provision

[Андрей Тарутин]

Below I asked about cross site lookup columns provision programmatically. What about forms provision? I know I can import and export forms. Can I do it programmatically?

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Sure, you can use the following web service:

/_vti_bin/formsdesigner/fdservice.svc

Method called PublishForms:

PublishForms(Guid listId, String contentTypeId, Guid groupId, Forms forms, string layout, out ServiceFault fault);
If you don't use groups functionality, please, pass empty guid as groupId argument. Layout string is content of exported XFDS-file.

[Андрей Тарутин]

It's great, thank you!

[Christian Heinrich]

Hello,

i tried calling the webservice, but unfortunatelly, Visual Studio cannot access the service for making a reference for it, neither I could directly call the service from browser, I only get a HTTP 400 ("Bad request") error when doing so!

I hope you can help me with accessing the webservice or get rid of the error.

[Dmitry Kozlov]

What version of SharePoint do you use: SP2013 or SP2010?

[Christian Heinrich]

Its SharePoint 2010 Server Standard, and I use an extended trial license...

[Christian Heinrich]

Oh sorry, I missed its the forum for SP2013 Forms Designer, big sorry! I hope you can help me anyway.

And should I re-post in FD 2010 forum?

[Dmitry Kozlov]

OK, thanks. Please, try the following URL:

/_vti_bin/formsdesigner/fdservice.svc/mex

[Christian Heinrich]

Now it works! Totally forgot about that trick with WCF services Thank you very much!

[Андрей Тарутин]

Dmitry, what about automating export? Is there any method?