K2 Limit on InfoPath form sizes?

Thanks for the info and the recommended solution! It's something similar to what we expected...

Having a seperate view in your InfoPath form will not influence K2.net at all. The client events will always open in the view specified when setting up the client event in K2.net Studio. Also if a user clicks on the button on the 'email' view the codebehind in InfoPath will be used to send the email - K2.net. When the user clicks on the 'Submit' in the K2.net Task Pane the workflow will be started.

As far as I understand the problem with the attachments is the size of the attachments. If you can have links to the attachments in the workflow there will not be any problems - Just keep the large attachments on the file system.

Hi coenw,

in the meantime I have changed our set up a bit.
I do the following:
In the request document I have a button called create folder. When the users press this button it creates a new folder with a unique ID. To generate this unique ID I use the following Web Service (thx to abishek from the InfoPath forum):

{"ID_" + DateTime.Today.Year + "_" + strNum.PadLeft(6,'0')});
   DataSet ds = new DataSet();
   ds.Tables.Add(dt);
   return ds;
  }
 }
}

That you can use this WebService you also need to create a text file with the initial value "0". Also don't forget to specify the path of your text file in the WebConfig of the WebService

Then in your InfoPath project you need to do the following two things. (I am using the InfoPath Toolkit for VS, so all my code is in C#). I use the "counter node" to make sure that the WebService is only called once and does not create a second or third or ... ID for one request. The ID node is used to store and represent the ID to the user. Take care for the namespace settings (will be different for you I guess)

  public void OnLoad(DocReturnEvent e)
  {
   IXMLDOMNode counter  = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:tbCounter");
   IXMLDOMNode ID   = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:tbID");
   try 
   {
    if(counter.text == "0")
    {
     IXMLDOMDocument3 myDoc = (IXMLDOMDocument3)thisXDocument.GetDOM("NextIDNumber");
     myDoc.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2006-06-19T07-15-47" xmlns:xsf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/solutionDefinition" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xdUtil="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Util" xmlns:xdXDocument="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/xDocument" xmlns:xdMath="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Math" xmlns:xdDate="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/xslt/Date" xmlns:xd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003" xmlns:dfs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/dataFormSolution" xmlns:tns="http://tempuri.org/" xmlns:_xdns0="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/changeTracking" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:diffgr="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata"");
     ID.text = myDoc.selectSingleNode("/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:NextIDNumberResponse/tns:NextIDNumberResult/NewDataSet/Table1/ID_Number").text;
     counter.text = "1";
    }
    else
     ID.text = ID.text;
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
    thisXDocument.UI.Alert(ex.Message);
   }
  }

Now first add a button and a new textbox control (name it link) to your form. In the button event handler do something like the following:

  public void Create_Folder_OnClick(DocActionEvent e)
  {
   IXMLDOMNode ID = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:tbID");

   string strDirectory = @"""your path where you want to create your folder"";
   System.IO.DirectoryInfo dir = System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(strDirectory + ID.text); 
   IXMLDOMNode link = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:Preform/my:Preform_Available/my:tbLink");
   link.text = strDirectory + ID.text;
}  

Like this you create a new folder under the specified path and also write the full path into your "link" textbox control. Use this textbox control as a datasource for a Hyperlink in your form.

The usage is now: The user clicks the button -> A new folder under your specified path will be created -> in the form a Hyperlink appears which point to this path -> The user clicks the Hyperlink and the newly created folder opens. Of course the folder is empty but the user can just drag and drop his files into the folder. Before I also used a browse button but the users where complaining about that quite fast because the drag and drop handling is a lot faster for them.

You should copy the Hyperlink of your form into every view so that each user of the process has access to the attached files. Take care that you grant every user read and write permission to the top folder in which you create the new folders for each request.

The nice thing about this solution is also that in the reporting section of the K2 Workspace under the XML data of each request the link is also activce and you can review all attachments for all requests any time.

Hope this can help you. If you want to have a browse button use the OpenFileDialog method. You can find examples on the net or even in VS when searching for it.