Newbie Questions

Re: Updating an element right before submitting

admot — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:56:18 GMT

I believe I found a way. Just use try/catch. I also had to turn off the default message via Submitting Forms\Submit Options. Strange that it shows an error if the person cancels but so be it.

try
{
  XDocument.DataAdapters["SubmitviaEmail"].Submit();
  XDocument.UI.Alert("The form was submitted successfully.");

  // Setting ActiveWindow.Close to true will close InfoPath immediately. Setting to false prompts to save the form.
  Application.ActiveWindow.Close(true);
}
catch(e)
{
  XDocument.UI.Alert("The request has been cancelled.");
}

Re: Updating an element right before submitting

admot — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:31:21 GMT

warrtalon:

Do you need to use code for this? It's a built-in feature with a checkbox on the Browser tab of the Form Options menu. If your form is not browser-enabled, I would think you could add a Refresh rule to your Submit "button" that refreshes any or all data connections before the submit action itself.

I'm using IP 2003 and I didn't see that option available. There will already be a submit button at the top of the form where it submits via email data connection. Since it was a requirement to use the Data Connection, having two submit buttons would confuse the user.

I think I figured it out but there's still a problem:

1) Instead of submitting to email, submit via code.

2) Use the following code:

XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:....").text = XDocument.Errors.Count;
XDocument.DataAdapters["ExtranetSubmit"].Submit();

This seems to work fine. But if I cancel the submit, I get an error back stating it was cancelled. Is there an error handle I can place in where if they cancel, it will just accept the cancel?

Re: Updating an element right before submitting

warrtalon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:58:10 GMT

Do you need to use code for this? It's a built-in feature with a checkbox on the Browser tab of the Form Options menu. If your form is not browser-enabled, I would think you could add a Refresh rule to your Submit "button" that refreshes any or all data connections before the submit action itself.

Updating an element right before submitting

admot — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:12:33 GMT

I would like to update an element right before the person uses the Submit button used in Tools\Submitting forms. I figured I'd use OnSubmitRequest.


function XDocument::OnSubmitRequest(eventObj) 
{ 
 XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:...").text = XDocument.Errors.Count; 
}
 
But for some reason, it doesn't update it on a submit. Is my code too simplistic? I did a search in the forums but didn't find anything. I'm updating an element to count # of errors, because the form can be submitted also via email attachment and I have a webservice checking for IPFormError.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks,