InfoPath Dev

I have an InfoPath 2010 form that needs to restrict access to members of our Management team.  We do not run SharePoint, so this form will be published into a shared network drive.  I need to find a way for the form to connect to AD and filter access to users based on a security group.  Is this possible?

I need to restrict viewing of the form to the AD group, and it would be nice if the name field could be populated by the manager opening the form.

Thanks.

Hi corsian,

You should take a look at our Active Directory Web Service (ADWS) which can do this for you: http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/ADWebService.aspx

I don't believe there is a way out of the box with InfoPath to query the security groups so you would either need to write your own web service or puchase an off the shelf one like ADWS.

Ted

Thanks Ted,

I've taken a look, but ADWS is well beyond the scope of our budget on this.  Do you know of any other way to have an InfoPath form speak to AD?  It seems like this should be a built-in capability considering the Person/Group Picker has a button to let you select someone from an address book, but I can't get it to work.

Cori

I am pretty sure the Person/Group picker works with SharePoint which would explain why you can't get it to work.

You can write your own web service to do this that is probably your best option but I don't think you will ever get that done in less time/cost than the amount you would pay for our tool to do this!

Ted