Submit button in Infopath to give options

My client has a Template library that contains all templates created in Infopath. Once the user has completed the template and click on 'Submit' I want the user to be able to select a Sharepoint library where he/she wants to save the completed template.
How do I do that?

This is unfortunately not possible. Submit buttons need to have predefined rules on where the form goes.
What you could potentially do is have the user select in the form where it should go, then have them submit to the main library. Once it gets there, the library runs a workflow that moves the form based on that selection.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]

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Submit Button in InfoPath has stopped working??

Hi there,
I wonder if you can help me. I had a infopath form that involved people submitting a form and then approval was sent to their line manager and they would then approve the entry.
This was working fine and now, despite everyone being in the same permissions group, some people are not able to approve items. When they press the button, nothing happens!
I am now experiencing the same problem with another form where the submit button (despite having rules behind it) does nothing when I press this. Everyone has this issue with this form however.
I am pulling my hair out over this as nothing has changed.
If anyone is able to help, would be very much appriacited.
Regards
Heather

Hi V Jean, this was not no, the action was set as rules rather than submit .. if that makes sense.
Would this effect some users and not others however? This is working for me so will need to check with the other users who this was not working for to see if this has ressolved the issue.
Very strange how some people this was fine for but others this was not working for, despite all being in the same permissions group.
Thank you for your help with this, will let you know if the issue is ressolved.
H

When press SUBMIT button on W2K - i give error.

When i press button submit in Form, i give :
FRM-40735 WHEN-BUTTON-PRESSED trigger raised unhandled exception
ORA-106500
on Windows 2000.
When i press button submit in form on WinNT - > work all fine.
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Sorry,
error is
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ORA-106500
>
When i press button submit in Form, i give :
FRM-40735 POST-FORMS-COMMIT trigger raised unhandled exception
ORA-106500
on Windows 2000.
When i press button submit in form on WinNT - > work all fine.
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With best regards
Valerij.

HTTP Submit Button - How to post data to a Web Server

HTTP Submit Button - How to post data to an IIS Server
Steveoruni - 09:50am Sep 4, 2007 Pacific
Hello,
I have created a simple form in LiveCycle designer. The form only has some check boxes, radio buttons and text fields for users to fill out. Everyone in my office is on webmail so the Email Submit button is not a smooth option for getting the xml data back to me.
I would like to use the HTTP Submit button to allow users to submit their form data back to me but I am having trouble. I would like the xml files to end up in a directory on the web server.
I set up an IIS 6 server and granted the Write right to the anonymous web user account. When I fill out the PDF form and click the HTTP Submit button it doesn't seem to work. Are there any special configuration changes I need to make to my IIS server to allow this data to be posted?
Should this plan work? Should I be able to have users use the HTTP Submit button to post their data right to my IIS web server or is there some Adobe server I need to buy for this simple form? I'd also be happy if this could work with Apache; it doesn't need to be IIS. I guess my main issue is that I don't know how to get either web werver to accept data in an HTTP post and save it as a file.
Also, I noticed that when I configure a standard button and set the Control Type to "Submit", there is an option on the Submit Tab to change the Submit As setting to "PDF". Does this mean that my users can fill out my form with Acrobat Reader and HTTP Submit the form to my web server as a PDF complete with their data? If not that's fine, I would be sufficiently happy if the users could post their XML files to the web server so I can open them in the form with Acrobat Professional.
I am lost and would appreciate any helpful feedback.
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Steve

HI again,
I want to have a pdf fillable form opened on a link.Once user has entered data, the user clicks a button(or some action to invoke saving). At this point I want the filled pdf file to be saved on a certain directory.
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Hello -
I am using Acrobat 9 Pro.
I am developing a fillable employment application for our HR department. Initially, I thought we could add the option to "submit" the form via email. However, now I am rethinking this due to a few issues. The first issue being security of sending it through email. The other issue is that when you click on the Submit button it brings up various options depending on if you are on a Mac or PC and depending on what email client you are using (desktop or webmail).
Is there any way to send a form via email without it bringing up the option to choose desktop email or webmail and going through all of the prompts? We want to make it user-friendly but also follow best practices.
Is it a better practice to have the applicant fill out the form, print it and then fax it to HR? I am looking for suggestions and solutions that have worked well for others.
Many thanks!!

Since you will likely have no control over your user's email client, there's little you can do to ensure the process goes smoothly. Not only is email generally unsecure, it is also unreliable. Some users might not even have a functioning local email cleint, and instead use a web based email system, in which case they have to manually attach it to an email that they initiate.
What is more reliable and easily secured is submitting to a web server, which can do the job of storing the form data (or complete forms) or emailing them. This is a bit more complex since the server has to be programmed to process the incoming submission and return a response, but it really is the better approach.
Faxing or mailing a printed copy is always an option and it can at least cut down on errors due to bad handwriting or inconsistencies (e.g., checking both the Yes and No check box for a question).

HTTP Submit Button - How to post data to an IIS Server

Hello,
I have created a simple form in LiveCycle designer. The form only has some check boxes, radio buttons and text fields for users to fill out. Everyone in my office is on webmail so the Email Submit button is not a smooth option for getting the xml data back to me.
I would like to use the HTTP Submit button to allow users to submit their form data back to me but I am having trouble. I would like the xml files to end up in a directory on the web server.
I set up an IIS 6 server and granted the Write right to the anonymous web user account. When I fill out the PDF form and click the HTTP Submit button it doesn't seem to work. Are there any special configuration changes I need to make to my IIS server to allow this data to be posted?
Should this plan work? Should I be able to have users use the HTTP Submit button to post their data right to my IIS web server or is there some Adobe server I need to buy for this simple form? Also, I noticed that when I configure a standard button and set the Control Type to "Submit", there is an option on the Submit Tab to change the Submit As setting to "PDF". Does this mean that my users can fill out my form with Acrobat Reader and HTTP Submit the form to my web server as a PDF complete with their data? If not that's fine, I would be sufficiently happy if the users could post their XML files to the web server so I can open them in the form with Acrobat Professional.
I am lost and would appreciate any good feedback.
Thanks,
Steve

I think the problem may be missing what "submit" means. Submitting a
PDF form, like submitting an HTML form, sends information to a web
program or script, like an ASP, a CGI or a PHP. It does not just "save
to the server", which seems to be what you are trying to do.
Do you have the LiveCycle Form Manager product? If not I recommend the
LiveCycle Designer forum: more folk there to help.
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Netui:button submit button tagID

I use the repeater Wizard by dragging a member field in my .jpf
controller file.
public transient String[] mySPArr = {"A","B", ... "Z"};
from the Date Palette onto the index.jsp.
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterHeader></netui-data:repeaterHeader>
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:label value="{container.item}" defaultValue=" "></netui:label>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui-data:repeaterFooter></netui-data:repeaterFooter>
</netui-data:repeater>
Editing out the Header and Footers and frame it with the netui:form
<netui:form action="getPatientRECArrByAlpha">
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:label value="{container.item}" defaultValue=" "></netui:label>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:form>
Next, I delete the netui:label and replace with a submit button
<netui:form action="getPatientRECArrByAlpha">
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:button type="submit" value="{container.item}"/>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:form>
This renders very nicely, what can be, a dynamic list of submit buttons labeled A thru Z. Now the only problem is I need it to render out to the browser in the form.
<form ...>
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<input type=submit name="s1" value="B">
<input type=submit name="s1" value="C">
<input type=submit name="s1" value="Z">
</form>
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public Forward getPatientRECArrByAlpha(GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm aForm)
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browser the name attribute for the submit button.
I tried;
<netui:button type="submit" value="{container.item}" tagId="{actionForm.s1}"/>
but I am missing something.

Thomas,
     The tagId attribute is not bindable at runtime. You could write a
little javascript that would set the value of a hidden parameter on the
form with the value of the submit button.
     Here is one option. (I've attached the .jpf and 2 .jsps to show this
working in a little application)
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<script language="javascript">
function passValue(value)
document.forms[getNetuiTagName("myForm")][getNetuiTagName("hidden")].value
= value;
obj =
document.forms[getNetuiTagName("myForm")][getNetuiTagName("hidden")];
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<head>
<title>Web Application Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
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tagId="hidden" dataInput="{actionForm.buttonValue}"/>
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<netui:button type="submit" value="{container.item}"
tagId="button" onClick="return passValue(this.value);"/>
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</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:form>
</body>
</netui:html>
     - john
thomas wrote:
I use the repeater Wizard by dragging a member field in my .jpf
controller file.
public transient String[] mySPArr = {"A","B", ... "Z"};
from the Date Palette onto the index.jsp.
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterHeader></netui-data:repeaterHeader>
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:label value="{container.item}" defaultValue=" "></netui:label>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui-data:repeaterFooter></netui-data:repeaterFooter>
</netui-data:repeater>
Editing out the Header and Footers and frame it with the netui:form
<netui:form action="getPatientRECArrByAlpha">
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:label value="{container.item}" defaultValue=" "></netui:label>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:form>
Next, I delete the netui:label and replace with a submit button
<netui:form action="getPatientRECArrByAlpha">
<netui-data:repeater dataSource="{pageFlow.myAlphaSArr}">
<netui-data:repeaterItem>
<netui:button type="submit" value="{container.item}"/>
</netui-data:repeaterItem>
</netui-data:repeater>
</netui:form>
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<form ...>
<input type=submit name="s1" value="A">
<input type=submit name="s1" value="B">
<input type=submit name="s1" value="C">
<input type=submit name="s1" value="Z">
</form>
Where I have a form with multiple submit buttons 'submitting' one of the various parameter 's1' Strings (A thru Z) to my action method
public Forward getPatientRECArrByAlpha(GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm aForm)
What I need is a bit better understanding of the tagId and how it will render out to
browser the name attribute for the submit button.
I tried;
<netui:button type="submit" value="{container.item}" tagId="{actionForm.s1}"/>
but I am missing something.<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-databinding.tld" prefix="netui-data"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-html.tld" prefix="netui"%>
<%@ taglib uri="netui-tags-template.tld" prefix="netui-template"%>
<netui-data:declarePageInput name="value" type="java.lang.String"/>
<netui:html>
<head>
<title>
Web Application Page
</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<p>
<p>
<p>
You pressed the button labeled "<netui:label value="{pageInput.value}"/>"
</p>
</body>
</netui:html>
[att1.html]
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.FormData;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.PageFlowController;
import com.bea.wlw.netui.pageflow.Forward;
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* @jpf:controller
* @jpf:view-properties view-properties::
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* <view-properties>
* <pageflow-object id="pageflow:/Controller.jpf"/>
* <pageflow-object id="action:begin.do">
* <property name="x" value="60"/>
* <property name="y" value="80"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="action:getPatientRECArrByAlpha.do#Controller.GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm">
* <property value="340" name="x"/>
* <property value="80" name="y"/>
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* <property value="256,280,280,304" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="73,73,73,73" name="elbowsY"/>
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* <property value="West_1" name="toPort"/>
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* <property name="x" value="220"/>
* <property name="y" value="80"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="page:error.jsp">
* <property name="x" value="220"/>
* <property name="y" value="160"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="forward:path#index#index.jsp#@action:begin.do@">
* <property name="elbowsY" value="72,72,72,72"/>
* <property name="elbowsX" value="96,140,140,184"/>
* <property name="toPort" value="West_1"/>
* <property name="fromPort" value="East_1"/>
* <property name="label" value="index"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="formbeanprop:Controller.GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm#buttonValue#java.lang.String"/>
* <pageflow-object id="formbean:Controller.GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm"/>
* <pageflow-object id="forward:path#success#showButtonValue.jsp#@action:getPatientRECArrByAlpha.do#Controller.GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm@">
* <property value="376,420,420,464" name="elbowsX"/>
* <property value="73,73,53,53" name="elbowsY"/>
* <property value="East_1" name="fromPort"/>
* <property value="West_1" name="toPort"/>
* <property value="success" name="label"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* <pageflow-object id="page:showButtonValue.jsp">
* <property value="500" name="x"/>
* <property value="60" name="y"/>
* </pageflow-object>
* </view-properties>
public class Controller extends PageFlowController
public transient String[] myAlphaStringArray = {"A", "B", "Z"};
* @jpf:action
* @jpf:forward name="index" path="index.jsp"
protected Forward begin()
return new Forward("index");
* @jpf:action
* @jpf:forward name="success" path="showButtonValue.jsp"
protected Forward getPatientRECArrByAlpha(GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm form)
Forward f = new Forward("success");
f.addPageInput("value", form.getButtonValue());
return f;
* FormData get and set methods may be overwritten by the Form Bean editor.
public static class GetPatientRECArrByAlphaForm extends FormData
private String buttonValue;
public void setButtonValue(String buttonValue)
this.buttonValue = buttonValue;
public String getButtonValue()
return this.buttonValue;

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