Unable to submit Infopath form due to permission issue

Question

_{Friday, May 1, 2015 8:08 PM}

Hi,

I have designed an Infopath form on a SharePoint list in a site on which i'm Site Collection Admin. Now the end users when trying to submit the form after editing items, get this error message:

The form cannot be submitted to the specified SharePoint list or document library. The SharePoint location may be read-only or you may not have permissions to access it.

I've referred various blogs, most of them talk of some form library permissions, etc... I don't have a form library and I checked that the users have contribute permissions on this list. 

Can you please let me know what might be the issue here. 

Also there is another issue. When a new item is created it, goes for approval to the manager. Now when the manager visits the list view, he clicks on Approve button (which i implemented using a CSOM) and which will modify the request Status to Approved, doesn't run and he/she is unable to get the requests modified. 

But when i visit the page, and click on Approve, requests get modified

Many thanks.

Kind Regards,

prajK

All replies (2)

_{Monday, May 4, 2015 10:58 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that the users who have contribute permission fail to submit the InfoPath form to the SharePoint list.

Please check the list permissions of the contribute permission in site settings -> site permissions -> permission levels -> contribute.

Please check if  a field marked as “Enforce unique values” in the InfoPath form. If that is the case, when you update a field to a value which already exists in the column in other item, it will stop submitting the data.

Could you provide more details about how you design the InfoPath form and the SharePoint list? Does the list have custom settings? It may be helpful to solve the issue.

Please create a new simple InfoPath form and test whether this issue occurs.

About the second question, I would suggest you post it in a new thread, it would make others easier to focus on one question in one single thread and it will benefit other community members who stuck with the same issue.

Best Regards,

Dean Wang

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_{Monday, May 4, 2015 11:57 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Dean -

Thanks for your guidance, helped me get there. I created a new form for a new list and that one worked, next i checked the list advanced setting for both the lists and found one difference in the item level permissions. 

For the list that worked, Item level permissions were set to "Create and edit all items". For the one that didn't work, it was the second one. 

So basically the manager was not able to approve/reject the items or the users who were not able update the form and submit, i think that was because they were not able to edit the items of other users, as a workflow was running each time updating something in the list.

Best Regards,

Prajk