Save/Submit with Sharepoint

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Dave Cohoon

My form has a submit button that will submit the form to a sharepoint list
and then close the form. Everything works fine when entering a new form,
however - nothing happens when a user is editing an existing form from the
sharpoint list. Pressing the submit button does not generate a success or
failure message. Users currently have to click 'Save' from the form's menu to
save the form back to the list.

I'd like to change the form so that if the form is being edited, that the
submit button will save the form and then close. I'm having trouble finding a
solution to this WITHOUT using custom code. We have some consumers that have
severe security restrictions.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
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hurtlingturtle

Hi Dave,
My current understanding of this is such that Submit can submit to
either a sharepoint doc library or a web service or as an email or to
the hosting environment itself(sharepoint, asp app etc). However, if
you choose to submit it back to the hosting environment then something
needs to actually know what to do with it when it is submitted. Most
likely a SharePoint workflow I would expect (if you are using
SharePoint) and then you can copy the form fields into the underlying
XML document during the workflow process...

However, for your situation I would imagine that you want to make sure
that your submit data connection is submitting to the correct place ie:
a SharePoint library. I suspect this is all the problem is. If you
can give me more details about how you have configured your submit data
connection then I can help you further.

hope this helps
cheers
Bruce
ps: This is related to 2007 as I have not used 2003.
 
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