How to disable the home button in a custom task pane

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Brettzky

I am using a custom task pane on my form and I would like to disable the home button so that the user can not get see the design form options in the standard task pane. Also, with using custom buttons or links, when navigating from 1 view to the next, i would like the forward and back buttons to react according to those selections.

Any help is appreciated.

Brett
 
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Brian Teutsch [MSFT]

The task pane is used for many common user functions, so it isn't possible
to override the navigation buttons. But there's only one task pane form
design option when you're filling in a form, and it just allows users to
start up a new bank form. Why are you worried about hiding that option?

Additionally, Views aren't related to the task pane, so it's not correct to
think that the task pane navigation would control view navigation. You
should create buttons in your view or on a custom toolbar if you want to
have a back/forward navigation.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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Brian Teutsch [MSFT]

If you're sure that your user base is only allowed to fill out forms, you
can lock down design mode. The Office Resource Kit has templates to help you
set up admin policies for the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\InfoPath\Designer (DWORD).
Setting it's value to 1 will turn off the designer completely.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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