Send Email with PDF attachment

[Brian Pembroke]

I have a requirement where I need to add a button on my form. This button
needs to export the form to a PDF and email the PDF as an attachment.

We are using PDF, because we do not want the person recieving the email to
be able to alter the contents of the form.

Is this possible and how would you go about doing this?

Thanks in advance,

Brian

 

[Clay Fox]

Hi Brian.

This is possible but it is messy and requires code, etc.

There are ways to make it read only in InfoPath, but I am not sure the
people recieving it have InfoPath.

Another option is to create a print view and then use cutepdf to print to PDF.

Not quite so automated but a much simpler option.

 

[Brian Pembroke]

The users will have Infopath installed on there computer. How would you go
about making the form read only?

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Clay Fox]

It is pretty simple.
You just need to identify the user and then also track the form state.

So if a user opens the form that is not a member of a certain group or if
the formstate is X they get the read-only view.

You can email me and I could show you an example.
http://www.infopathdev.com/members/clayfox.aspx