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In my Infopath form 2010, I am using a data connection called Email submit (which is an 'To Email' option in data connection). I have a people picker field in my form template which is used to select a "manager" from my local database.

The problem is the user (who enters data in the form) can select any manager from database and after he clicks the submit button then an email should be sent to that specific manager with the 'print view' form of my infopath form.

The problem is I don't know how to send an email to that particular manager because in Email submit data connection we can see only 'To', bcc fields which asks us to enter manager email, which we don't know.

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Where are these managers being sourced from? Is the drop-down being filled from a SharePoint list? Is it statically set in the form? – Drew Lanclos Nov 5 '12 at 19:08

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When the user selects a manager from the drop down list, you have the name so cant you transform this into the email adres? Most of the times the email adres for a company is firstname.lastname@company.com.

If that doesn't work can you fill the drop down list with the email adresses of the managers instead of the names? Then you send the form to the entry in this field.

If that is not possible I think the only way to solve this is using custom code.

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Given the user selection in the people picker, one should be able to supply that to a call to the User Profile Service to get the corresponding email address. Custom code should not be necessary. Much depends on what "database" refers to in the question. – Drew Lanclos Nov 5 '12 at 19:07

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