Give a bit of feedback

Ever had a InfoPath Form Services form with a simple Submit and Close mechanism but wanted to give the user that little bit more ? Wouldn’t be great if we could display a status message to the user ? Well you could create a separate form view to display a confirmation message or we could just display a SharePoint status message like the one below…

By using a custom link to launch the InfoPath form and including a query string within our source message we can trigger a status message within a content editor web part.

Just add a content editor web part to the page and add a little JavaScript magic:

   1:  <script type="text/javascript">

   2:   

   3:    var l = window.location.href;

   4:    l = l.replace('?','&');

   5:    var p = l.split('&');

   6:    

   7:    for(var i in p)

   8:      if (p[i].indexOf("status=") >= 0)

   9:      {

  10:        var values = p[i].split('=');      

  11:        var value = values[1];

  12:   

  13:        if (value=='ok')

  14:        {

  15:           ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(ShowStatusInfo, "sp.js");

  16:        }

  17:      }

  18:   

  19:     function ShowStatusInfo()

  20:     {

  21:        msg = SP.UI.Status.addStatus("Expense Form", "<img src='/_Layouts/Images/mewa_info.gif' align='absmiddle'> <font color='#AA0000'>Your expense claim was submitted successfully</font>", true);

  22:        SP.UI.Status.setStatusPriColor(msg, "yellow");

  23:     }

  24:   

  25:  </script>

 

 

Launch the page with a query string including &status=ok and hey presto you have a happy user.

Of course the close button will also display the same message but I leave that as an exercise for the reader…