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I have Rich text control on my form, I need to set some action if it is blank and other actions if it is not blank.   when it is originally blank the action happen correctly, and if I write something the action for not blank execute perfectly.     HERE is the problem: when it contains some words and I delete these ...

 Hello Hilary,   thanks for reply.  yes the checkout works on form load without any conditions .  And the check out field cannot be override if any other person open the file . the check it as well with no condition but it happen with button not form load :D   I did contacted my admin and we found that the ...

 Hello Hilary and DerekS,  Now every thing works fine but without conditions to checkout on opening the form. and I have button to close and check in the file .  this button works fine for me and any owner but it gives me an error for other users " correlation error contact your farm administrator " the link ...

ok , but finally it works only when i apply actions with no conditions at all becaus ethe condition checkoutt is not blank doesnt work . after i found the file checked out atuomaticalli , now i can't check it back in . probably the sharepoint understood that it is locally , here is the image for this error while i was trying to check in ...

 here is the error while trying to open the form after applying the steps in the blog   https://drive.google.com/open?id=1QSpiz-1qo6j7rSTPhXr4qwY23RGW1FhX 

 Hilary , The first condition in the blosg is : if Check-out-to is not blank .  Why we want to checkout the file if there is some name in the checkout field .   may be you mean that if check-out to is blank , right !!! 

 Thank you DerekS , I will read these chapters from this book . and the form with calculating filed giving the actual approval final status . I just use workflow to only assign task and remind ppl if they are late and to shut the task if the person did a decision in the form it self .   Thanks  

Hi DerekS , Hi Hilary , Thanks for your time reading my questions and trying to help. I found the suggestion of DerekS is a very good idea that I explain the whole scenario and the reason why I need to apply auto checkin/out. The project is form library on SharePoint 2013. Only one form [ Browser InfoPath Form not ...

Hello Hilary, I have read your amazing blog about auto-Check-out procedures using InfoPath form, and data connection to checkout/check-in. I have one problem that the procedure seems incomplete and giving me an error in opening the form. Sure, it's hard for you to guess to what extent I followed your methodology, but I did all ...

even if i use same name , the form will be submitted as new form so new workflow will start. i need to keep the form same . also i use now function as apart from form name . so the now value will be different at every moment of opening the form and this will be a problem if the form name changed . any other alternatives you know to auto ...