Hide/Show Button based on Online/Offline status

[jackcroww]

I have a form that my users want to be able to use while offline. I
have set up the form so that I have two buttons at the bottom of the
form, one of which submits the form via email [EmailSubmit], and the
other submits the form directly to a Sharepoint site [WebSubmit].

I know that I can determine the Online/Offline state in the OnLoad
event with Application.MachineOnlineState:

<code>
function XDocument::OnLoad(eventObj)
{
if (Application.MachineOnlineState)
XDocument.UI.Alert("Online");
else
XDocument.UI.Alert("Offline");
}
</code>

But, there is where I'm stuck with two problems.

1. As far as I can tell, the Application.MachineOnlineState only
determines if the user is on a network. Ideally, I'd like my test to
look for my specific Sharepoint site and verify it is available.

2. I seem to have found that one can't access the form elements
programmatically, so it there a way to get my Online/Offline test
result available to the Conditional Formatting capability?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jack

 

[jackcroww]

I have a form that my users want to be able to use while offline. I
have set up the form so that I have two buttons at the bottom of the
form, one of which submits the form via email [EmailSubmit], and the
other submits the form directly to a Sharepoint site [WebSubmit].

I know that I can determine the Online/Offline state in the OnLoad
event with Application.MachineOnlineState:

<code>
function XDocument::OnLoad(eventObj)
{
if (Application.MachineOnlineState)
XDocument.UI.Alert("Online");
else
XDocument.UI.Alert("Offline");
}
</code>

But, there is where I'm stuck with two problems.

1. As far as I can tell, the Application.MachineOnlineState only
determines if the user is on a network. Ideally, I'd like my test to
look for my specific Sharepoint site and verify it is available.

2. I seem to have found that one can't access the form elements
programmatically, so it there a way to get my Online/Offline test
result available to the Conditional Formatting capability?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jack

Solved it:

Added this code to script.js

<code>
function IsServerAvailable()
{
if (Application.IsDestinationReachable("http://mmci-gd103sp1"))
return true;
else
return false;
}
</code>

Then added these Conditional Formatting expressions to the appropriate
buttons:

WebSubmit: [xdExtension:IsServerAvailable() = false] : Hide this
control
EmailSubmit: [xdExtension:IsServerAvailable()] : Hide this control

Hope this helps anyone else with this problem.