Newbie Questions

Re: Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

vishali — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:18:56 GMT

Can you send me step by step process .Thanks

Re: Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

vivasuzi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:48:41 GMT

Great! When I get back to work on Monday I will test out some of my ideas and I'll be back I'm sure :-D

Re: Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

Janice Thorne — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:41:04 GMT

Sure Suzanne, we'll be happy to help. Let us know what you need.

Re: Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

vivasuzi — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:27:46 GMT

Thanks for the tip. Actually that was one thing I tried I just didn't know if that was a realistic way of doing it since my test form only has like 3 fields and my real form is going to have like 50.

Do you guys also answer questions about sharepoint related to infopath? If so I have another question but I'll have to write out the steps I'm trying to take so before I type it all up I wanted to make sure.

Thanks!

Suzanne

Re: Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

Janice Thorne — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:32:58 GMT

You can leave your fields not required, but place conditional formatting on your submit button to only display if all fields are filled out. Let me know if you need a step-by-step.

Can you Save a form with blank fields but not Submit?

vivasuzi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:15:51 GMT

Hello! I'm new to Infopath/Sharepoint Workflows and trying to come up with the best way to accomplish this.

Basically what I want is a form with required fields. However, I want to have 2 options:

Save will save the form, regardless if all fields are filled out. This is for people who want to save as they go or save in Draft mode until they have all the info
Submit will submit the form as finished.

The trouble is, if I make fields required in infopath, they can't Save or Submit. If I make fields non-required, it Saves, but obviously then it submits even if fields are blank. Is there any other way to do this?

I'm seeking code-free options to start because I don't have the rights to publish forms with code in them, but if the only solution you have is via code I'll see if I can be granted those rights.

Thanks!!