Disabling desing mode? Compilable forms? May be in infopath 2007?

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Alex - 09 Apr 2006 16:43 GMT

Hey, the great problem I have with Infopath today is how users can open a
form in design mode even when it has the "Enable protection" option selected.
No matter how much code or security I build in the form, it makes no sense if
users can go in and change the scripts. I haven't found a way around this and
my company needs to figure this out before it chooses to implement a set of
solutions in Infopath.

Is there anything to be done in Infopath 2003? If there is, I haven't found
it, how do you people work around this? Will infopath 2007 provide anything
new for this?

Thanks in advance!!

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Ben Walters - 10 Apr 2006 00:10 GMT

Alex
With Form protection enabled a user may open the form in design mode but any
changes that are made will not be saved. If the script behind the form is
what you are most worried about I would suggest moving that code to a managed
code base e.g. VB.net or C# this way when a form is deployed All the code is
compiled into a dll and hence locked out from any user tampering.

The final option you have is to use group poilcy to disable the users
ability to use the design mode of InfoPath at all however it is worth noting
that this type of change would prevent the user from designing any forms at
all.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011402401033.aspx

Hope this helps

Cheers
Ben Walters

> Hey, the great problem I have with Infopath today is how users can open a
> form in design mode even when it has the "Enable protection" option selected.
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> Thanks in advance!!

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