By Edith C.
For complex InfoPath forms, which include: data connections, embedded code, etc. the Publishing Wizard is not quite recommended. Instead, you can deploy your forms via the Central Administration. These quick steps will guide you to efficiently publish your InfoPath form templates using the Administrator-deployment method.
1. Start your SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the Central Administration page, click the Application Management tab.
3. On the Application Management page, in the InfoPath Forms Services section, click Manage data connection files and click Upload.
4. Browse and choose your xml file and double click it.
5. To enable the connection to work with forms started in InfoPath, select the Allow HTTP access to this file check box.
6. Click Upload.
7. Then you can modify data-connection properties using the InfoPath designer to include a data connection link as “Centrally managed connection library”.
8. After you update all data connections, use the Publishing Wizard to save the form template to a location that the server administrator can access.
Note: After you publish the form template to a network location, the server administrator can then upload the form template to InfoPath Forms Services. And then activate it to a particular site collection
9. Now, using the Central Administration, go to Application Management, in the InfoPath Forms Services section and click Manage form templates.
10. Click Upload form template and browse your *.xsn file
11. Click Upload and then OK.
12. On the Manage Form Templates page, pause on the form template you just uploaded, click it to start the Open menu and then click Activate to a Site Collection.
13. Select your Site Collection from the Site Collection list, and then click OK.
14. On the Activate Form Template page, click OK.
Note: To reference an InfoPath content type in a document library, follow the next steps:
15. In Internet Explorer, navigate to the document library in the site collection for which you activated the form template.
16. Click Settings, and then click Document Library Settings. In the General Settings section, click Advanced settings.
17. Make sure the option “Yes” is selected for Allow management of content types?
18. Click Ok. Now you can add the form as a content type.
19. In the Content Types section, click Add from existing site content types.
20. On the Add Content Types page, click the appropriate site content type, click Add and then click OK.
And you are done! You can start creating your forms on the library.
Hope this helps you!