InfoPath Dev

Hi, I'm trying to establish how an infopath form was opened.

Is it possible to establish if a form was opened using

var fred = Application.XDocuments.Open("C:\\form1.xml");

from another form or if it was opened direct by clicking on it? 

 

Regards,

 

Hi --

So you are trying to find out in your newly opened form whether it was opened from another form or not?

I'd add a field or attribute to your target the form that you can set when you use code to open it. To try to make this more understandable, let's say I have two forms: Estimate and Work Order. I want to be able to click a button in my Estimate to open a Work Order. I also want to be able to just open the Work Order form on its own. I need to know if the Work Order was opened from the Estimate, or on its own. I'd add a field to Work Order called something dorky like "OpenedFromEstimate" and make it a boolean with a default value of false. Then, in my code for my Estimate button, I'd set the value of that field to true when I open the form from the Estimate.

Does that make sense?

Thanks for the quick response - I won' sleep tonight if I don't figure this out :-) 

I'm not sure I fully understand!!

node "OpenedFromEstimate" is part of the Work Order xsn DOM - how can I set this from the Estimate xsn DOM?

Perhaps it might help if I explain why I want to do this I want to be able to pass data from the first form to the second a little like how i think Application.XDocuments.NewFromSolutionWithData works (which I'm also trying to get working). However, if I can't I can use the fix of knowing how the form was opened. If I knew this, I could from the trigger form (Estimate) use web services to create an entry on a sharepoint list that the other form Work Order (if it was opened from Estimate) would read and pre-populate some fields. Cheers.

What object model are you using? 2003 or 2007? You can open a form from another and populate values into the newly opened form -- the code will vary depending on your object model...

Here is a sample for the IP 2003 model -- this is C#, and I think you may be using script:

//Create the new, blank workorder -- path changes according to your template location

XDocument workOrder = thisApplication.XDocuments.NewFromSolution(@"C:\ComputerName\Folder\TemplateName.xsn");

 

//Convert to IXMLDOMDocument2

IXMLDOMDocument2 workOrderDOM = (IXMLDOMDocument2)workOrder.DOM;

 

//Set the namespace -- changes according to YOUR form

workOrderDOM.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:my=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2008-07-06T22:11:15\"");

 

//Set a field -- xpath changes according to your target form

workOrderDOM.selectSingleNode("/my:WorkOrders/my:EstimateId").text = "SomeValue";

Search the forum for NewFromSolution to find other samples, I think there may be some script samples out there....

Hilary - thanks I'll check this out in the morning and get back to you

2003 with jscript is my environment

Hilary, Brilliant! this will be a major enabler for us.

It works in jscript with the following code:-

function OpenNewFormandPassData::OnClick(eventObj)

{

var fred = Application.XDocuments.NewFromSolution("C:\\MyForm.xsn"); // Open new form

var source = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:test").text; // get local DOM node

var MyFormDOM = fred.DOM; // set newly opened form var

MyFormDOM.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:my=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2010-02-24T17:38:16\""); // sort out Namespace

MyFormDOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:employee").text = source; // set the new form node = node from local DOM

}