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i have a hidden button that is supposed to send an email to the form submitter. this button only shows when the form is opened... so... since the person opening the form to see the button is the approver and not the form submitter he click the button and it send the email to himself. how can i place a field in the hidden section that pulls the name of the form submitter instead of the name of the person openning the form??

Hi mmenzie,

When using a function such as userName() to display the submitter, set a condition to the rule that populates the submitter field to only run if the submitter field is blank. This condition will prevent the field from being re-populated. Please check submit button rule on the sample form I am attaching for your reference. Hope this helps.

Thank you for the example but i can't seem to get mine to show like yours or work. my username() is in the email address and part of the submit options for the button and not a where you show in your example. i am going to attach my actual form as there is no security related info in the form. you can look at how i have it setup and suggest where i am going wrong and what i can do to improve it

thanks

well... with alot or "trial and error" i figured it out on my own. i had to had another text field to my "hidden" section to pull the submitter and set it to not recycle on form load

What's basically important is to have this field set to a permanent value after submitting. I'm glad to hear that you were able to sort things out.

 Why cant you use Created By field to send the Email to? I might be missing something here but wanted to know.

Hi kapil_kjoshi,

Are you trying to get the e-mail address using the CreatedBy field and use it for submitting your e-mail?

 No Don,

I'm not trying to do this. I was asking why cant mmenzie do this instead of modifying his submit option. Is he sending the email from the form or using SPD workflow? I was just trying to get more details around his issue and may be the option of using Created By field solves his issue. But he never replied.