InfoPath Dev

PROBLEM You want to use the InfoPath Contact Selector to add multiple contacts to your form, but: Selecting multiple users with Contact Selector requires code Contact Selector is an ActiveX control and requires installation on client machines Contact...

This post was originally written by Clay Cobb and is republished here with permission. To see the original article, please click here . One thing that you can't easily do in InfoPath is to copy repeating data from a secondary data source - like a...

Licenses can be added for DBXL using the DBXL Admin Tool (DAT) or using the DBXL Licensing web service. To add a license via web service, you must open a web browser on the server where DBXL is installed. Copy your license file to that server, and make...

If you've ever tried to speed up a slow form, you've probably come across this link at MSDN . It is great and has some useful advice and troubleshooting. However, I have found one single culprit that has caused an unbelievable performance hit...

EDIT : If you are using qRules v4.2 or greater, you should follow this blog post instead, as this command has had a bit of an overhaul! qRules 2.0 is here, and it has a whole host of cool new commands. One of the real superstars is SubmitToSharePointList...

The QuerySharepoint web service allows you to retrieve data from a SharePoint list. It requires a <query> parameter, which can be built using the QueryBuilder form that comes with DBXL. QueryBuilder allows you to specify the columns you wish to...

So, you've invested in DBXL, which is great news for your organization -- all of our web services can speed your form development, help you create more performant forms, give you a great deal of flexibility for saving the data from your forms to different...

In this tutorial you will learn how to use perform an in-place swap of an Active Directory alias and display name so as to conserve space in the view. This sample uses a text field and a button along with conditional formatting, rules and data validation...

Perhaps you are an accidental programmer. You are the person at your organization who was in charge of some laborious business process and you thought "Gee, we have this InfoPath thing. Maybe I can build a little form for this?". You build the...

There are times when you want to deploy a template to multiple SharePoint form libraries. For example, multiple teams may use the same template but need to keep their documents separate. The typical way to do this is to deploy the form twice, once for...

This blog post provides the steps on how to create an InfoPath form that switches views through vertical tabs. When you’ve followed all those steps and have successfully created your own InfoPath form with vertical tabs, you’ll probably use this technique...

We’ve seen InfoPath forms that have tabs on top, lined up horizontally. These tabs are actually buttons that are meant for switching to different views within the form. This blog post describes how this is done: For a change, why don’t we have these tabs...

When working with DBXL and other applications, you need SQL. Some organizations deal with multiple SQL instances and this can create a problem if some SQL instances are on different domains. When we attempt to connect an SQL instance using SQL Server...

When helping users with problems we have found it dangerous to make assumptions about the version of InfoPath that is installed. The user must first identify the version build number of his/her InfoPath: 1. Click Start , and then click Control Panel ...

Here's a nifty trick you can use when you want to add a radio button or checkbox to a repeating section or table that can only be checked in one row of the section or table at any given time. The Scenario You are creating a form for a team roster...