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Two commonly requested features for Qdabra DBXL are automatically populating the database and migrating content from one site to another. We have developed a tool that allows you to do both. The DBXL Document Deployer is an XML-driven, command-line tool...
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A common question is to how to show custom dialogs using the InfoPath 2007 OM. In InfoPath 2003 one could use the ShowModalDialog OM function that would take an arbitrary HTML and show it. Although you can still use the old IP2003 OM in InfoPath 2007...
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At Qdabra Software, we do a lot of consulting projects involving InfoPath. That's our bread and butter, so to speak. We've been toasting InfoPath solutions now for over 3 years, and many years before that as employees on the InfoPath product team...
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The InfoPath Team Blog has a great article on how to implement cascading dropdowns in InfoPath Forms Server (IPFS) without writing code: http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/10/12/cascading-dropdowns-in-browser-forms.aspx . Unfortunately, this...
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Whenever you want to expose your forms on a web page the tendency is to want to put a plain hyperlink to your XSN form template or XML file. The problem with this ranges from getting lame IE download dialogs all the time to data loss scenarios (see below...
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Many InfoPath solutions that use SharePoint for hosting require that the web site that the form is published to be located in the Local intranet zone in Internet Explorer. For Corporate Intranet sites this is usually not an issue because the website will...
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"AutoComplete" in InfoPath is a handy feature. For users that fill out many forms or similar forms over and over again "AutoComplete" allows users to quickly select previously entered text from a drop down list in the InfoPath client...
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Unlike the main data source, secondary data sources have an annoying property of not displaying the values stored in the XML when the view controls are bound to them. It turns out that it does not have to be this way – a small hack can fix it. Consider...
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InfoPath 2007 has a lot of new great features including dynamic buttons where a button text can be specified via xpath. Unfortunately, such features are not Designer-compatible with InfoPath 2003, that is, you will be able to edit your forms alright but...
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Have you ever opened Team Explorer to kick off a build and watched in awe as the server stayed in the “Getting Sources” state for several minutes when the actual source code should only amount to a few kilobytes? If so, this blog’s for...
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This page on MSDN provide a very cool matrix of which features are available for development depnding on your mix of VSTO version and Office version. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa942839(VS.80).aspx
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I ran into an issue where I got a corrupt DBXL installation which would refuse to uninstall. I have removed the virtual directory and the databases manually but Windows Installer information persisted, preventing me from reinstalling DBXL. So I searched...
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While working on the Catalog Base Form for DBXL, I nearly went nuts trying to debug why my <link> tags were not working in the task pane. I had the file included as a form resource file, and when I opened the HTML file directly from Internet Explorer...
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So you have finally upgraded to the latest and greatest Office 2007. Wonderful! You can now design and deploy the new shiny InfoPath 2007 solutions along with the ability to publish to the Forms Server! But there is a problem – your friends at the...
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Internet Explorer は、既定の設定の場合、InfoPath フォームが複数のドメインにまたがってデータにアクセスするときに警告を表示することがあります (図 1 を参照)。タイトル バーのラベルが "Internet Explorer" になっているのは、InfoPath ではなく Internet Explorer がセキュリティ上のリスクを警告していることを示します。これはセキュリティの点では有用ですが、制御された環境で作業している場合は、このダイアログ ボックスがわずらわしくなってくることがあります...