InforPath forms and one click open

Question

I am by no means a SP expert! However, I have managed to figure out and create an InfoPath form and have published it to a site I own. It works fine, but it is a 2 step process. When I published the form and named it (Change Request Form), a link was created on my home page on the left nav under Recent called Change Request form. When I click on it I am taken to a new page, where I then have to click on "new" in order to actually open the form and enter data. What I want to do is have a link that when clicked actually opens the form (as if "new" was already selected) ready to accept data. Screen shots below show where the nav link is and the page you are taken to when you click, and then the form once you click New.

Any help appreciated - I've been searching and asking questions all over and SP is not the easiest or intuitive app to use and I haven't come across anything that makes sense or looks easy enough for me to do. Thanks Leslie

Answer 1

the "recent" menu option you see is created each time you create a new library, that links take you to the view of all the items of the library, probably information you don't want to show to all the users.

i recommend you to remove it and don't depend on it because it will host up to 5 items, after the 6th item is added, the 1st will be pushed out from the menu. they also disappear after 2 weeks.

the next step is to follow A.Saéed steps, but i would also recommend to fix the url to have somethinkg like this:

"sharepoint.com/site/library/newifs.aspx"

everything after the newifs.aspx is almost uselss, except for the "source" parameter

ADVANCED: you can redirect the user to another sharepoint page when they submit or cancel

you can do this by adding the source parameter to the url "?source=sharepoint.com/site/sitepages/home.aspx"

so you'll end up with something like this : "sharepoint.com/site/site/library/newifs.aspx?source=sharepoint.com/site/sitepages/home.aspx

Answer 2

Me too...from my home page navigation, using the Publishing Site template, on SPO, I could not convince SharePoint to open up the InfoPath form directly. Copying the URL from the New Item button would first take me to the view, if I click the link again it worked. Now, the home page appears to be classic, and my view is using the modern experience. Clicking the InfoPath form first opens the view in modern.

What worked for me is to open the list in classic view, copy the New Item URL which uses listform.aspx instead of newifs.aspx - the link works, opening up InfoPath directly using newifs.aspx. Repeated twice on two troublemaker links, so perhaps this will do it.

Answer 3

1. open the new form
2. copy url from the brower
3. navigate to home page
4. click on the edit links as in the below image
5. add new link for the copied URL (as on the below screen)