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• Create a Repeating Cascading List from a Hierarchical Data Source

  It is common to need two or more list boxes where the choices in one are dependant on the value of another. This is known as a cascading list. A cascade can occur with as few as two levels up to any number of levels. Some common scenarios which require... Posted Jul 14 2005, 05:06 PM by Greg Collins with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Filters, Secondary Data Sources, Lists, Cascading

• Create a Repeating Cascading List from a Flat Data Source

  It is common to need two or more list boxes where the choices in one are dependant on the value of another. This is known as a cascading list. A cascade can occur with as few as two levels up to any number of levels. Some common scenarios which require... Posted Jul 14 2005, 04:03 PM by Greg Collins with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Filters, Secondary Data Sources, Lists, Cascading

• Create a Cascading List from a Hierarchical Data Source

  It is common to need two or more list boxes where the choices in one are dependant on the value of another. This is known as a cascading list. A cascade can occur with as few as two levels up to any number of levels. Some common scenarios which require... Posted Jul 06 2005, 10:06 AM by Greg Collins with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Filters, Secondary Data Sources, Lists, Cascading

• Create a Cascading List from a Flat Data Source

  It is common to need two or more list boxes where the choices in one are dependant on the value of another. This is known as a cascading list. A cascade can occur with as few as two levels up to any number of levels. Some common scenarios which require... Posted Jul 06 2005, 07:49 AM by Greg Collins with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Filters, Secondary Data Sources, Lists, Cascading

• Keep Track of List Selections

  At some point it might be necessary to keep track of order of the selections a user makes in a single list box or drop-down list box. You can accomplish this by writing your own code in an OnAfterChange event handler, or you can use rules. In this task... Posted Jun 09 2005, 06:56 AM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Rules, Code, Lists

• Display Only Unique Options in a List

  When list box entries are looked up in either the form's data source or a data connection, you might end up with the user being presented duplicate options. You can correct this, and display only unique options in a list, by using a filter and the... Posted Jun 08 2005, 12:20 PM by Greg Collins with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Filters, Lists, preceding

• Populate a Drop-Down List Box via a Secondary Data Source

  One great feature of InfoPath SP1 is the ability to quickly populate a drop-down list box from a variety of data sources. One such data sources is an XML file that has been added to the form as a secondary data source. A common mistake is binding the... Posted Jul 28 2004, 11:14 AM by Greg Collins with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Secondary Data Sources, Lists

• Populate a Drop-Down List Box via Code

  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... Posted Jul 12 2004, 12:31 PM by Greg Collins with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Code, Lists

• Display Multiple Fields in a Drop-Down List Box

  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... Posted Jul 08 2004, 02:33 PM by Greg Collins with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Lists, concat()