InfoPath Dev

Hi All,

Environment:

Info Path 2003 (soon will be redesigned to 2007) and SharePoint Server2007 library.

SharePoint is locking files when opened by other users, that’s fine :), it even warns users that document will be opened in Read-Only mode.

Is there any way to detect (e.g. on open) that document is opened in ReadOnly mode?

I would like to disable submit buttons or even switch to ‘print view’ so users do not try to submit form when they cannot. Of course submit will fail with some nice warning, but the other actions happen like sending email notification or change of some fields locally that is mistaken to users.

Thanks in advance,

Greg.

Hi, and welcome...

In C#, in your OnLoad (IP2003)

thisXDocument.IsReadOnly

Or in Loading (IP2007)

this.ReadOnly

Either of these return a boolean value of True if the document is read only and false if it is not. You could add a field to your form data source (or a secondary data source) and in your loading code you could set the value to true or false depending on whether the form is read only. Then you could base your conditional formatting off that field....

This is what I did for now. I have the code setting a flag in the loading event if the form is in read only mode. I then have a field that displays "This form is in read only mode" and have buttons that hide if this flag is set to "Y" (conditional formatting). I found that a lot of users could not tell the difference between read-only and edit mode and were actually filling out the form in read-only mode. With SharePoint integrated forms, if the form is in read-only mode, it will only allow you to save it to your hard drive.  

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