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DrRocket
I'm making a project request infopath form that gets filled out by
someone and emailed to me. I then fill out how long I think the
project will take and I email it to my boss who then either approves
it or denies it. When the requestor fills out the form, they have to
insert a picture of their signature to the form and then when i fill
out my part i insert a picture of my signature into the form. When I
hit submit, it sends the form to my boss and also saves a copy of the
form to a shared drive. This all works fine but leads to a problem
that I can't figure out. When my boss opens the form it goes to a
certain view just for him. What I would like to do is put forward and
back buttons on this view that populates his current form with the
information from forms that he has yet to approve or deny. I can
easily make the button open the XML forms in new infopath applications
but what I would really like to do is have him click one of the
buttons and have it populate the current infopath application he has
open. That way he doesnt have 30 instances of infopath open open on
his computer. My main data connection is a database so its not a
problem to use SQL to fill in the data fields like this. The problem
is that I cant figure out for the life of me how to extract the
pictures of our signatures from the saved forms onto the current form
he has open. Surely this has to be possible right? All I'm trying to
do is take a saved form and open it in the current form. I tried
setting up a secondary data connection and then changing the file URL
to point to the form where the signatures would be but the data types
for the signatures is turned from picture to string in the secondary
data source. Any suggestions on how I could get this to work? Thanks
in advance for the help.
someone and emailed to me. I then fill out how long I think the
project will take and I email it to my boss who then either approves
it or denies it. When the requestor fills out the form, they have to
insert a picture of their signature to the form and then when i fill
out my part i insert a picture of my signature into the form. When I
hit submit, it sends the form to my boss and also saves a copy of the
form to a shared drive. This all works fine but leads to a problem
that I can't figure out. When my boss opens the form it goes to a
certain view just for him. What I would like to do is put forward and
back buttons on this view that populates his current form with the
information from forms that he has yet to approve or deny. I can
easily make the button open the XML forms in new infopath applications
but what I would really like to do is have him click one of the
buttons and have it populate the current infopath application he has
open. That way he doesnt have 30 instances of infopath open open on
his computer. My main data connection is a database so its not a
problem to use SQL to fill in the data fields like this. The problem
is that I cant figure out for the life of me how to extract the
pictures of our signatures from the saved forms onto the current form
he has open. Surely this has to be possible right? All I'm trying to
do is take a saved form and open it in the current form. I tried
setting up a secondary data connection and then changing the file URL
to point to the form where the signatures would be but the data types
for the signatures is turned from picture to string in the secondary
data source. Any suggestions on how I could get this to work? Thanks
in advance for the help.