Python script to hide ploneformgen form after user has filled it out. (For Plone-4.3.2-64.)

Question

After a user has filled out a (ploneformgen) form , I would like to use a custom script adapter to call a python script to change the user’s local role so that they can’t see th

Answer 1

Ugly ugly way to handle this may be to access to the data saver field's download method and parse its output to find data to check. For example, if username is the second pfg field added into form, a custom script adapter that prevents furthers fillings by a user may be

alreadyInDB = False
savedData = ploneformgen.savefield.getSavedFormInputForEdit()
username = request.AUTHENTICATED_USER.getId()

usersInDB = [x.split(',')[1] for x in savedData.split('\r\n') if len(x)>0]

if username in usersInDB:
    alreadyInDB = True

if alreadyInDB:
    return {'username': 'No way man!'}