For information about infopath eforms, please refer to the link below
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_InfoPath | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_InfoPath]
Being capable of sending and receiving an email as Microsoft info form, will help an organization to do business to business communication with smaller business partners( who do not have servers capable of processing xml messages) , all they need is Microsoft outlook with infopath addin installed. There is extra license that needs to be purchased (if you compare with adobe eforms, it is a pretty cost effective solution.)
The content of the eform can be any business document such as invoice, order etc.
Here’s the sequence of steps that needs to be followed to achieve the above mentioned objective
For sending an eform from PI/XI (outbound to SAP XI)
Outbound Scenario:
1) design a infopath eform based on the xml schema of the inbound or outbound message( using infopath eform designer)
eform will be saved as an .XSN file (this file needs be specified as an attachment in the email) . A sample xml file depicting the content of the eform can also be saved.The outbound xml file from the XI should match the sample xml file in terms of namespaces and version information.
2) In receiver mail adapter choose the message protocol as ““XIPAYLOAD” with “Mail Package”. For information regarding mail package, refer to the following link
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