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If you've ever tried to toggle a boolean field back and forth in an InfoPath form, or perform some behavior based on the inverse of a field's value, you may have encountered a problem I found. The not() function does not behave the way one would...
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Ah, input parameters. It is so nice to be able to open a form with some values already filled in, isn't it? Except, of course, when they don't work. And to say they are a bear to debug would be an enormous understatement. I was recently helping...
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Using the New button on a SharePoint InfoPath Document List is not intuitive for new SharePoint users. It would be nice if users could simply click a web link to launch a new InfoPath Form. Here is how to do this in a single line URL ... Edit a Web Page...
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Sometimes InfoPath Forms Server (IPFS) gives you a non-descriptive error when you try to admin-publish a form using the "Manage Form Templates" UI in SharePoint Central Administration. These steps could provide a more informative error message...
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There are two very common email scenarios with InfoPath. One -- you want to use an email submit connection but modify some things before the email goes out (common reasons: you'd like to use form fields in the Information section which is not currently...
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Okay, I know I'm always a few days late to the picnic, but I found this great poster while online looking for something else, and thought this would be a great place to share it. Now if I just had a humongous color printer, I'd finally be able...
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The following new documents have been published this week. qForm: How To Manage qForm’s Client Side Notifications How To Localize Your InfoPath with QdCatalogBase How to use the template feature in qForm How to customize Status values in qForm Permissions...
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A solution that uses multiple Document Types that feed data to one another often requires one form to be filled out before another. However, the user might not realize this requirement until he or she has already started filling out the second form. One...
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If you have to reshred a lot of documents, there is an easier, automated way of doing this rather than using Qdabra DBXL Administration Tool (aka DAT). Download and install the Qdabra DBXL Migration Tool . Download the Scenario File for documents reshredding...
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This week we have published three new documents related to DBXL v2.2. If you are interested in setting up server-side notifications for your forms, check out the document called How To Setup Server-Side E-Mail Notifications . If you are developing a solution...
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While this week sees the publication of only two documents, they cover two very important topics. The Web Service Developer's Reference contains development tips and web method descriptions, useful for anyone intending to develop a solution using...
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Now that DBXL v2.2 Beta is available on our website , we have begun to publish documents that relate to this new product. This week (June 21 to 25) we have published the following documents: How to Create Nodes in Taxonomy : DBXL allows you to tag your...
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In an earlier post , we looked at mapping data from nested repeating tables using DBXL v2.2. In that post, the SQL table associated with the main repeating form group used an identity column that was set to auto-increment for the key. DBXL, however, currently...
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A DBXL solution that is designed to be generic needs to be able to access several DBXL properties. For example, a solution that wants to display a hyperlink in an e-mail needs to be able to determine its docid and the DBXL URL. While it's easy to...
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Connecting an InfoPath Forms Services form template to DBXL v2.2 For users of the InfoPath application in Office 2007, DBXL has been providing a great way to easily connect forms with SQL databases. Now, with the increasing popularity of InfoPath Forms...