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One anomaly you will run into if you have the Windows XP Themes turned on and are using a task pane or a modal dialog in your form is that buttons in these HTML pages will look different than those inside the InfoPath form view. This is because the HTML...
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Most people will never run into this problem, but a few of you will and it could drive you nuts. The InfoPath application includes the e-mail features Send Form As Attachment in the designer, and Send To Mail Recipient in the editor. These are both found...
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When creating a new form from a SQL database connection, there are a couple of things to remember in order to enable the Submit To Database feature. The SQL tables used must have a primary key, unique constraint, or unique index. Without this you will...
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InfoPath evaluates the User Roles in top-down order, as they appear in the Manage User Roles dialog box. But there is no built-in way to reorder these roles. Manually editing the manifest.xsf file is the only way to accomplish this. Here are the steps...
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While developing forms in InfoPath, it is likely that you will one day need a label for a check box or an option button that uses a font size other than the default 10pt. Using a different font size will make the control simply not look right next to...
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STATUS: Fixed in InfoPath 2003 SP1. SCOPE: Occurs in both V1 and SP-1. Not language specific. DESCRIPTION: On 2004.07.23, I was sent a form to help track down an issue where dashed red lines that appears when data for a particular field is invalid. After...
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STATUS: Fixed in InfoPath 2003 SP1. DESCRIPTION: I uncovered this previously unknown problem on 2004-07-17 while updating the InfoPathDev Web site using an RSS 2.0 Generator InfoPath form I created. I've reported it to Microsoft. I wanted to reorder...
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In InfoPath, the order of processing when a user clicks a button is: Rules Code When you write your OnClick event handler, take into account that any rules associated with the button will be processed before the code is reached. This can be very useful...
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NOTE: This article was written for the original InfoPath 2003, which did not support secondary data sources. You can still use code to populate a drop-down list box, but the better approach is to have the drop-down list populate from a secondary data...
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To add a header or footer to your InfoPath form printout, do the following: In the Views task pane, double-click the view for which you want to add a header or footer. In the View Properties dialog box, select the Print Settings tab. Click Header, or...
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Suppose you have a schema with the following structure: myfields ns1:coolDocument coolField ns2:coolDocument coolField When you save your form to SharePoint, if you select to promote both coolField entries, then the promotion will fail for the 2nd entry...
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If you are trying to identify the current table row so that you can make modifications to other field in that row, the safest thing to do is to make those modifications using code. This will be the fastest (performance-wise) solution. You can see how...
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While developing your InfoPath form, you might need to have a drop-down list box display more information from more than one field. This is actually quite simple by manually modifying your view .xsl file. In this task we will demonstrate the changes necessary...
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Event bubbling means that when an event, such as the OnAfterChange event, happens on a particular data node in an XML tree, that event is passed up to the parent node, and then the grandparent node, and so on, all the way back to the root node. Thus the...
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If your form contains logic that checks to see if it is read-only ( thisXDocument.IsReadOnly ), there is an issue with Outlook where InfoPath will report false positives depending on your Outlook cache settings. Most of the time, it doesn't make sense...