https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspxIf you're not sure where to ask your question, ask it here. If necessary, our moderators will make sure it gets classified in the correct board.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117392.aspxThu, 05 Oct 2017 18:10:17 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:117392mklauss0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/117392.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=117392<p>&nbsp;Hello again,</p><p>I am working on a new form, one that requires manager approval and also needs to be submitted to a list as read-only&nbsp;to store for audits.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;I&#39;ve been going back and forth about how to do this as I don&#39;t have access to Designer. I&#39;ve tried submitting the form to&nbsp;the list and creating a workflow to send the approval task but&nbsp;it isn&#39;t working to send the email and I need the approver to be dynamic based on what is entered in the form.</p><p>I&#39;ve tried then to add an approval section to my form that is hidden when the form is filled out and submitted and then the submitted button is&nbsp;disabled so the approver then gets the Approve and Deny button&nbsp;options along with some text. For some reason, if I&nbsp;use the form to send to a manager to approve, the text in the section that hides initially shows up but the buttons do not show up. If I submit the form to a list first and open it up, it works as intended with the buttons and the text visible&nbsp;and&nbsp;the submit button is disabled. &nbsp;I&#39;ve gone over my rules so many times but can&#39;t find a reason why the buttons don&#39;t show up and this option seems to be the easiest with a dynamic approver. I&#39;ve tried the suggestion on how to make the approver dynamic in a workflow but I couldn&#39;t get that to work either.</p><p>The other thing I&#39;ve thought about is to create a separate view for the approval but I haven&#39;t tried that yet and would like to get the second option working if possible.</p><p>So I have three questions I guess.</p><p>1. Is there a best practice for a form like this when trying to complete the process out of the box?</p><p>2. Has anyone had any experience with trying to use email&nbsp;for a section that is initially hidden but once the form is submitted and changes a hidden field to Submitted will then show the hidden section with buttons?</p><p>3. Would using a separate view be easier in the end?&nbsp;</p><p>We are using SharePoint 2010,&nbsp;InfoPath 2010 and Windows 7.</p><p>Thank you for any help.</p><p>Mike&nbsp;</p>