Preview in Browser Button

[jnorris]

It would be awesome to have a "Preview in Browser" button in the ribbon. What I have been doing is using the form's full path (which would also be excellent to have instead of just the file name in the status bar) once I find it in SharePoint Designer, pasting the link in a new browser and pressing f5 after each save to see the changes.

Thanks!

[Dmitry Kozlov]

Hi there,

We understand that you're developing a form that you want to preview before saving, so as to be sure it functions correctly before it goes online. In that case we would recommend you using separate form sets (SharePoint Online) or separate groups of forms (SharePoint On-Premises) for developing/testing and for releasing.

You can add a form set or a form group by clicking the plus button in the top right corner in Forms Designer. Please see this page for more information: http://spform.com/documentation/groups

Once you've created your form group or form set, you can form a URL to it easily by substituting the form file name into your regular URL to a given default form. These additional forms won't be directly accessible to the user. (If you will be creating a form group, you can use "false" (without quotes) as the user defined rule, so as to not make it directly accessible to the user).

I personally when I develop a form keep two browser tabs open: one with Forms Designer, another with the form I'm designing. Then when I save I can just refresh the second tab to see my changes.

Does that help?