InfoPath Dev

This is a question I see in the forums occasionally, and is something that can be confusing for beginners - so I wanted to do a quick rule review. Action rules in InfoPath fire when the field they are on changes. So let's look at the following scenario...

Have you tried PowerApps yet? Microsoft is looking for InfoPath form designers for their research panel on this exciting new product. You can take a survey here to join - learn more about the panel here .

You may download the files used in this blog post from this link . Overview Sometimes you have a form and you want to show another form's data, without actually copying it into your form. In other words, you don't want to include the queried form...

Sometimes you want your users to be able to open forms without having to navigate to SharePoint and open up the associated form library. Sometimes you want them to do it without even having to log into the SharePoint site: maybe your end users don’t even...

A business intelligence dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators for a business, department, or specific process at a quick glance. Using InfoPath as a Dashboard gives us more control...

(Click here to download the files used in this blog post.) Overview When you're designing a form, you don't need to include "everything but the kitchen sink”. I confess abusing this idiom in the past. It means "almost anything one can...

Overview How about approving workflow requests via email with one click? With Qdabra's easy-to-install FormsViewer app, you can do this and more. Wouldn't it make even more sense to approve workflows from a phone without having to login to SharePoint...

I recently encountered a formatting issue when I open a form. In the screenshot below, the formatting looks unattractive and the size of the objects are smaller in length. When I download the template and open it in InfoPath, I get the same ugly format...

I recently encountered problems opening form in the InfoPath 2013 filler after installing 2016 from Office 365. Here's the error message I received: While I performed prerequisites to install InfoPath 2013 with Offie2016, I was still unsuccessful...

Just a quick post to let you know about an issue I ran across recently. I had a repeating table in a form where some of the columns had shading. We decided to remove the column shading and go to an alternate row shading using conditional formatting. I...

Since we never know what will or won't work on Office 365 on a given day, I thought I'd outline a few things that we know at this time. SharePoint Web Services (this includes REST [OData]) are blocked. There are some exceptions - this KB outlines...

I had an error on qRules SubmitToSharePointList today that succeeded creating a new item, but failed to update an existing item. The failure error was: Exception: Exception from HRESULT: 0x8004304D. Full error node text: Cannot access a closed Stream...

Have you ever encountered querying data from a repeating table on your form uploaded in DBXL, and adding a filter to your query returns all the data in that document including the ones you don’t need? This happens because the Report builder’s filters...

While we wait for Microsoft to announce what's ahead (more here ) I think it would be fun to start taking a look at some other tools for capturing data. To start with - I'd like to do a quick intro to Excel Surveys. If you aren't familiar...

You can reshred DBXL forms using the DBXL Admin Tool but for large document sets you'll want to use the DBXL Migration Tool. And, for specific document sets, you can use our handy Powershell script. Do you need to reshred documents in DBXL? How many...