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Move a published form template to a new location

If you publish a form template and then want to move it to a new location or change the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for it, existing forms that are based on that form template may stop opening. If the form template has a Full Trust security level, you can move it without affecting existing forms that are based on it. If you want to move the form template from one intranet site to another, or to a new location within the same domain— for example, from http://www.example.com/form to http://www.example.com/expensereport— you must maintain the same form ID for the form template.

To maintain the form ID for a form template, follow these steps before you move the form template:

1. Open the published form template in design mode.
2. On the File menu, click Properties.
3. In the Form Properties dialog box, copy the form ID that appears in the Form ID box.
4. Publish the form template to the new location.
5. In design mode, open the form template from the new location.
6. On the File menu, click Properties.
7. In the Form ID box, replace the existing form ID with the one that you copied from the published form template.

Note  If the form template has a security level of Domain and and you are moving it across different domains on an Internet site, none of its existing forms will open unless they are edited in Microsoft Notepad or edited by using an SDK tool. For more information, see the Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK).