InfoPath Dev

I know this is probably very simple to do.

If anyone could show me how to open an URL by clicking on a button, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Michael

Hi Michael,
Why not just encode the URL in the form as a link and have them click on that? You can have a text field and bind a Hyperlink control to that and make it read-only. That will allow the user to click on it and navigate to the URL it references.

Hi Patrick,

I can do what you said OK, but I am looking to hide the link after it has been selected. Can this be done the way you have said, I know I can do this if I use a button.

Thanks for your Help

Micky

Hi Micky,
That's a good point. Hmmm. Thinking. Why not just use the taskpane? The other thing you could do is add an HTML dialog that pops up when the button is pressed and they click a link in that but that's clunky. Very interesting problem. I'm still thinking about it .... you could always use some code.... thinking more ....

What I ended up doing was binding the hyperlink to a section.

It's not perfect, but it looks ok on my form.

Was able to hide the Section (hyperlink) when a submit button was activated to send the form as an email.

It works for our purposes.

Thanks for your help Patrick

Getting back to this... To open an Url by clicking a button, use the following code onclick:

var oApp = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application");

oApp.visible = true;

oApp.Navigate("http://The URL you require");