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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / November 2005How to make an Infopath form read only after it is submitted.
My company uses InfoPath extensively to route certain types of information to the proper employees to get handled. Once a form has been submitted we want the fields to be read-only and the submit button to disappear. We figured out how to hide the submit button after the form was submitted, but the fields are still active. We think we found a way to make the fields read only, but the rules have to be set on each field. Our form is very complex and we determined we would have to make about 600 changes!! Is there an easier way? Mary Hi Mary, You can do it by code, by catching the OnBeforeChange event on each control and Cancel the event. That way you won't have to modify any control on your form. Does it make sense? Regards, Franck Dauché > My company uses InfoPath extensively to route certain types of information to > the proper employees to get handled. Once a form has been submitted we want [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Mary I have multiple submit buttons in the form. Does that make a difference or can I still try your suggestion? Mary > Hi Mary, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > Mary The submit buttons can be hidden with conditional formatting (as you pointed out in your original post). The Event cancelling is great to prevent changes in textboxes, checkboxes, etc. You just have to add one node in your schema for read-only (false by default). Once submitted, that node can be changed from false to true. You hide or disable some controls based on that value and you catch the OnBeforeChange event at the form level (1 single event for the entire form). If the read-only node is true, you cancel the change (regardless of the control that triggered that event). Now you ca have multiple read-only nodes and make only part of your document read-only, depending on the Submit button used. It depends on your business logic.. Regards, Franck Dauché > I have multiple submit buttons in the form. Does that make a difference or > can I still try your suggestion? [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > > > > > Mary Mary, Have you tried using digital signatures? Users can sign the form using digital certificates and prevent tampering the whole form or certains fields. You can find more information at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/h tml/odc_INF_Lab_01.asp HTH, Jose Leon SkyXoft It's not just workflow. It's about the process. http://www.businessandprocess.com > My company uses InfoPath extensively to route certain types of information to > the proper employees to get handled. Once a form has been submitted we want [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Mary |
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