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Re: Attachment Field - adding read-only file

Jimmy — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:07:26 GMT

You seem to have a misunderstanding of what the term "Read-only" means and what the Read-only file attribute does.

If you save the form as its source files, you can modify the manifest.xsf file to remove the Save as... option from the context menu:

<xsf:button action="xFileAttachment::saveAs" xmlToEdit="field1_1" caption="&Save As..." showIf="immediate"></xsf:button>

but I don't think that will stop anyone from opening the .msg file in Outlook and saving it from there.

Re: Attachment Field - adding read-only file

Hilary Stoupa — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:06:31 GMT

I was going to suggest that you deselect the checkbox on the file attachment control that says "Allow user to browse, delete and replace files" but I see the contextual Save As menu is still there. I'm not sure of a way to prevent users from saving a file attachment locally....

Attachment Field - adding read-only file

cwelsh — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:55:46 GMT

Hi All,

Basically i have a very simple scenario, i have an email on my hard drive called test1.msg. I want to add this file to an attachment control (theattachmentnode2) which i've done through the below code:

Dim theAttachmentNode2 As XPathNavigator = Me.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:group46/my:field134", Me.NamespaceManager)

''Get a reference to the filename node.

Dim fileName1 As String = "c:\test1.msg"

If fileName1.Length > 0 Then

'Encode the file and assign it to the attachment node.

Dim myEncoder As New InfoPathAttachmentEncoding.InfoPathAttachmentEncoder(fileName1)

theAttachmentNode2.SetValue(myEncoder.ToBase64String())

End If

The issue is, that i have made the .msg file read-only because i don't want people to be able to save the email wherever they want but it appears the read-only attribute doesnt carry over when the email gets attached to the form. Any suggestions?