There is no configuration change that will resolve this problem while enabling you to maintain a Forms Based Authentication environment. However, you can write managed code that retrieves the user name or other user information, and you can use that managed code in your form template.
The easiest case is to retrieve the current user's logon name. You can retrieve this when the form loads by adding a call to the
Application.User.LoginName property to the
FormEvents_Loading event. Here is an example:
public void FormEvents_Loading(object sender, LoadingEventArgs e)
{
XPathNavigator codeUserNameXPN = this.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode(
"/my:myFields/my:CodeRetrievedUserName", this.NamespaceManager);
codeUserNameXPN.SetValue(this.Application.User.LoginName);
}If you need more profile information, you must use managed code to pre-authenticate, and then call the user profile web service directly. This requires you to hard-code or prompt for the credentials of a user who has rights to view the requested user profile. In most cases, this user will be a site administrator. If you decide to hard-code the credentials, you should consider security and maintenance issues. The code will be run on the server, which can help you limit security exposure. But when the user name or the password changes, you will have to have update the code. Prompting for credentials does not present these issues but will only work if the user of the form has the rights to view the requested user profile.
Here is sample code that obtains the properties of the current user:
public void FormEvents_Loading(object sender, LoadingEventArgs e)
{
//A place to write the results
XPathNavigator codeUserNameXPN = this.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode(
"/my:myFields/my:CodeRetrievedUserName", this.NamespaceManager);
//codeUserNameXPN.SetValue(this.Application.User.LoginName);
try
{
//TailSpinToysAuthentication is the web service reference to the
//https://tailspintoys:23456/_vti_bin/authentication.asmx web service
GetUserName.TailSpinToysAuthentication.Authentication authenticationWS =
new GetUserName.TailSpinToysAuthentication.Authentication();
//Call the web service's Login method and pass the username and password of a site
//administrator so we have rights to read all user profiles
authenticationWS.Url = "https://tailspintoys:23456/_vti_bin/authentication.asmx";
authenticationWS.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer();
GetUserName.TailSpinToysAuthentication.LoginResult result = authenticationWS.Login(
"Admin", "Password");
if (result.ErrorCode == GetUserName.TailSpinToysAuthentication.LoginErrorCode.NoError)
{
//If we authenticated correctly, then set up a call to the user profile service
//TailSpinToysUserProfileService is the web service reference to the
//https://tailspintoys:23456/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx web service
GetUserName.TailSpinToysUserProfileService.UserProfileService userProfileWS =
new GetUserName.TailSpinToysUserProfileService.UserProfileService();
//Pass the authentication cookies we got back from the authentication web service
userProfileWS.Url = "https://tailspintoys:23456/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx";
userProfileWS.CookieContainer = authenticationWS.CookieContainer;
//Try to find the user profile information of the current
GetUserName.TailSpinToysUserProfileService.PropertyData[] resultData =
userProfileWS.GetUserProfileByName(this.Application.User.LoginName);
//Enumerate through the properties
foreach (GetUserName.TailSpinToysUserProfileService.PropertyData property in resultData)
{
//Pick out the "AccountName" property and display it
if (property.Name == "AccountName")
codeUserNameXPN.SetValue(property.Values[0].Value.ToString());
}
}
else
{
//If we failed to authenticate properly, display the reason why
codeUserNameXPN.SetValue(result.ErrorCode.ToString());
}
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
//If an exception occurred, report it.
codeUserNameXPN.SetValue(ex.Message);
}
} To use managed code in a form template, you must make the form template fully-trusted in the
Security section of
Form Options, and then publish the form template to SharePoint as an Administrator-Approved form template.