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Re: How to Capture Url of Referring Page in InfoPath Field [Solved]

Jimmy — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:48:16 GMT

Excellent. Thank you for sharing your solution with the rest of us.

Re: How to Capture Url of Referring Page in InfoPath Field [Solved]

rnugent — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:31:39 GMT

@Jimmy. Thanks again for your reply. Your use of the phrase "query parameter" eventually led me to the answer. Basically, I created a custom list with a PreviousPage text field, loaded the list in SharePoint Designer and created a custom default "New Form".

I then added a new server variable parameter: <ParameterBinding Name="ReferringUrl" Location="ServerVariable(HTTP_REFERER)" DefaultValue=""/> to the custom form.

From there, I edited changed the SharePoint form field to an ASP text control to pass the server variable results to: <asp:TextBox runat="server" id="ff5{$Pos}" text="{$ReferringUrl}" __designer:bind="{ddwrt:DataBind('i',concat('ff5',$Pos),'Text','TextChanged','ID',ddwrt:EscapeDelims(string(@ID)),'@ReferringPage')}"/>

I checked it a few times and later changed the text field holding the referring url to hidden.

Re: How to Capture Url of Referring Page in InfoPath Field

rnugent — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:37:48 GMT

Thanks for replying.

1) The form is embedded

2) Not sure I understand this (am a real newbie) but I'd say no.

I think it is possible using this approach:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/joshuag/archive/2008/06/03/getting-the-current-user-name-or-id-in-sharepoint-using-sharepoint-designer-no-code.aspx, changing the server variable where applicable.

will report back if successful.

Re: How to Capture Url of Referring Page in InfoPath Field

Jimmy — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:28:45 GMT

Two questions:

In your setup, is the InfoPath form embedded within the page, or is it the whole page (i.e. you're just showing a FormServer.aspx page)?
Do you have a way to pass the URL of the referring page as a query parameter in the URL of your InfoPath form page? (e.g. &referringpage=http...)

If the answers to the above are "whole page" and yes, then ther should be a way to accomplish this using either managed code or qRules.

How to Capture Url of Referring Page in InfoPath Field

rnugent — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:42:16 GMT

Hi. I created a simple "contact administrator" InfoPath form with an email workflow when form is submitted. I need to capture the url of the referring page in a form field (preferably hidden) to include in the email sent by the workflow. The intent is to be able to know which page the user was on when a problem occurred.