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Many of my SharePoint consulting clients and students express the need to have different users see different views of an InfoPath form. In the InfoPath client, this is easy to handle using the User Roles functionality which has been well-documented elsewhere. Unfortunately, User Roles are not supported by InfoPath Forms Services for your browser-enabled forms. Here is a work-around that I have been using for quite some time that has worked well for me and my clients and students. In this post we'll create a simple InfoPath form with two views: one view for most users and another view for administrators only. When the form loads, it will check to see if the current logged in user is an Administrator for that form and if he is it will display the Admin View to the user. If the user is not an administrator for the form, it will display the User View . Create a Custom List to Store Users and Permission Levels Although SharePoint exposes a number of web services that reveal secur...

The objects in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 object model serve as an interface for working with Windows SharePoint Services data. Frequently, developers call into the object model to read data from or write new data to the Windows SharePoint Services store. The Windows SharePoint Services object model contains objects that implement the IDisposable interface. You must take precautions when using these objects to avoid their long-term retention in memory in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Specifically, you should explicitly dispose of those SharePoint objects that implement IDisposable when you are finished using them. In scenarios in which you use SharePoint objects extensively—for example, in SharePoint sites that use custom Web Parts—you can cause the following unusual behaviors by not disposing of SharePoint objects when you are finished with them. Frequent recycles of the Windows SharePoint Services application pool, especially during peak usage Applic...