Who pushed the submit button

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Is there any way to confirmed who pushed the submit button on a form that was
created in Front Page?

Here's a sample of a form:

Department Enrollment Form

Last Name

First Name

Type your name which will serve as your electronic signature of approval:

Approvals are only accepted from a Division and/or Department Head.

Submit button

Even tho a user can type his/her name in the electronic signature box, how
will I know for sure this form came from a division/department head? I need
this information for audit purposes.

I'm new to FrontPage and creating script is over my head, so if you have a
suggestion please include step by step instructions.

Thanks for help.
 
You can't. There is no really good way of identifying who is actually
clicking a button. You would have to do a good bit more custom code to be
able to identify the user. For example, if they're logged in you could
attempt to capture the windows domain user account that they are using, but
this is somewhat unreliable as it's been known not to return any result. You
could also capture the IP address of the user who clicked the form, but that
only helps for record purposes because you would have to lookup the IP
address of the computer in your company's DHCP logs (which only is useful if
they're logged into a corporate network that assigns IP addresses by
computer, it's useless outside the network).

Basically, the only real way to do this would be to have a membership
mechanism where you required the only users who could view the page and/or
site to be in a special Windows user group. This also only works if your
company has people that login to a domain controller that holds all the user
accounts and that users are setup within logical groups according to their
status in the company (not always the case). By restricting access to
certain user groups to begin with though grants you some level of assurance
that at least the computers that are viewing the page are logged in with the
appropriate permissions (though you can't be sure who's at the computer).
 
The way that I would handle this is to required the user to login, then pre-fill the form with their
info, require them to type yes in a box, then submit the form, then the system would send a
confirmation email back to the logged in user's email address which they must then confirm, prior to
any action being taken on the submission. However this will require custom server-side scripting to
accomplish.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

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