Basic electronic signature implementation...

Question

Hi... need
a little help with this one.. I was expecting it to be a walk on the park but
I'm finding some road blocks...<o:p></o:p>

I have a
Picture Library called "Electronic Signatures" that stores pictures of
the users scanned signatures, with their username as the
"Description"<o:p></o:p>

I have a
List called "PIN List" where I store a list of PINs with the username
as the "Title" of the item...<o:p></o:p>

I have a
Web Browser enabled form where I created a data connection to the "PIN
List" and another one to the Picture Library.<o:p></o:p>

NOTE:
Remember that the field "Description" on the picture library is = to
the "Title" field on the PIN list<o:p></o:p>

This is
what I had in mind:<o:p></o:p>

Get the
username in a field on the form and ask the use to enter his PIN in another
field.<o:p></o:p>

If the PIN
entered by the user is = to the pin stored on the "PIN List" where
[username() - is equal to - "Title"] insert an image stored in the
Picture Library where [username() - is equal to - "Description"]<o:p></o:p>

In short
what I'm trying to do is to validate the user with a PIN number and if it passes
validation to show an image of his/her signature on the form...<o:p></o:p>

How crazy
does this sound???? I would appreciate if you can tell me how to implement it
and make it work<o:p></o:p>

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Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,

Sounds like a good implementation I like it.

Your pictures are not working so its difficult to see where you are going wrong.

Depending on how you are storing the username it may be the issue. One thing to remember is userName() does not return domain name only the username, and when comparing two values in InfoPath case matters, so to remove human error (i.e. mixture of usernames in either AD or your List) you can convert both values to ensure all characters are upper or lower case.

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InfoPath MVP | SharePoint 2010 MCITP & MCPD | Office 365 MCITP | CUBE4 SharePoint Blog | InfoPathTips.com

Answer 2

I have this working now, I will post a article on InfoPathTips soon so you can follow :)

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InfoPath MVP | SharePoint 2010 MCITP & MCPD | Office 365 MCITP | CUBE4 SharePoint Blog | InfoPathTips.com

Answer 3

Here you go

http://infopathtips.com/2012/08/08/electronic-signatures-with-ipfs/

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InfoPath MVP | SharePoint 2010 MCITP & MCPD | Office 365 MCITP | CUBE4 SharePoint Blog | InfoPathTips.com

Answer 4

Hey!!! thanks!!! I'm suprised that I'm  capable to have an original thought!!!LOL

I really appreciate you taking the time to implement a solution, document it so trhoughly and then share it with the world, for free....

Thanks!!!! I'll give it a try and let you know...

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Thanks in advance.

Answer 5

Here you go

http://infopathtips.com/2012/08/08/electronic-signatures-with-ipfs/

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InfoPath MVP | SharePoint 2010 MCITP & MCPD | Office 365 MCITP | CUBE4 SharePoint Blog | InfoPathTips.com

Hey!!!!! It works perfectly!!! I'm very new to all this InfoPath and SharePoint, but your solution was really clear and helped a lot...

I had some doubts on very specific steps as I went along, but I attribute that to my very low level of experience... nothing that a good old "trial and error" would not solve.

I have some suggestions for other articles for you to evaluate if are worth to give it a try....

Thanks once again for your help!!!

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Thanks in advance.