How to close an InfoPath form programmatically

 

A web-based form can only be closed with a rule

You can only close an InfoPath form (web-based) if you create a rule with an action that says: 

Close the form

In addition, such a rule can only be set on a button control, which means that you will not be able to close an InfoPath form when a user changes the value of a field, but only when a user clicks a button.

Rules run before code

A design feature of InfoPath is that rules run before code, which means that even if you write code in a button that has theClose the form action set on it, the code will execute after the Close the form rule runs.

So you won’t be able to close the InfoPath form programmatically by writing code behind a button that has a rule set on it.

When code runs before rules

There is an exception to the rules run before code feature, and that is when you use a form’sSubmit Options.

On the Submit Options dialog box of an InfoPath form template, you can set aClose the form rule, which will run after the form is submitted. This way you can write code in the FormEvents_Submit event handler toprogrammatically submit an InfoPath form and supposedly close the InfoPath form programmatically after submitting it.

Using a custom Submit button

By default, the FormEvents_Submit event handler is executed whenever a user clicks theSubmit button on the toolbar of a web-based InfoPath form running in InfoPath Forms Services on SharePoint.

But you can also create a button that has a Submit action and hook it up to theFormEvents_Submit event handler.

Submit to multiple data connections and close the form

The FormEvents_Submit event handler allows you to write code to execute more than one data connection (e.g., tosend data through email in InfoPath, to submit an InfoPath form to a SharePoint library, to submit data from an InfoPath form to a web service, etc.) before closing the InfoPath form.

A good example of this is if you want to programmatically submit an InfoPath form to a SharePoint form library, send an email, and then close the form.

 

http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2009/01/how-to-programmatically-run-code-close-infopath-web-form/

 

实践：

想实现通过按钮提交并启动工作流并关闭form，并且可以暂存不启动工作流并关闭form。考虑用两个按钮实现，一个为submit，通脱formevent实现提交，一个为普通button,通过后台代码实现提交并启动工作流，但通过普通按钮提交并关闭form时，如果数据验证出错（如必填字段没填），form还是会被关闭.

 

修改普通按钮，加两个rule, 一个通过数据连接提交，一个关闭， 然后在后台代码中启动工作流，在此需在formloading中加入设值提交连接的 folderurl 的语句。