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• Switch Views During the OnLoad Event

  InfoPath provides the SwitchView method to allow you to programmatically switch views from within your code. But SwitchView is a method of the View object, which does not exist until after the OnLoad event has completed. Any attempt, therefore, to use... Posted Jun 27 2005, 03:16 PM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: OnLoad, Code, Views

• Switch Views via Code and Rules

  There will be times when you will want to switch views during unsupported events, such as the OnAfterChange event. Due to technical reasons in the underlying platform, InfoPath only allows you to switch views during the OnLoad event and the OnClick event... Posted Jun 10 2005, 03:04 PM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Rules, Code, Views

• Hide a Check Box Using Conditional Visibility

  Check Box and Option Button controls have very limited conditional formatting choices. In fact, the InfoPath UI provides only one conditional formatting choice for these two controls: disable. But disabling a control is not always the right choice. In... Posted Jun 09 2005, 10:37 AM by Greg Collins with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Views, Check Boxes, Conditional Visibility

• Add a Custom Style Sheet to a View

  InfoPath view .xsl files contain three or four standard internal style sheets, depending on whether you have specified a color scheme. These can be identified by the attributes controlStyle='controlStyle' , tableEditor="TableStyleRulesID" ,... Posted Jun 07 2005, 01:58 PM by Greg Collins with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Views, Style Sheets

• Bringing Expressions Out of the Box

  I uncovered this problem on 2004.09.17. I actually noticed it happening several weeks earlier, but didn't have the time then to find out what was going on. I've reported this problem to Microsoft. In order to avoid numerous potential problems... Posted Sep 17 2004, 04:44 PM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Rules, Views, Expression Boxes, Conditional Formatting, Workarounds, Bugs

• Too Lazy to Switch Views

  STATUS: Fixed in InfoPath 2003 SP1 DESCRIPTION: While working on a project for Microsoft, Patrick Halstead and I were using some complex Open Rules and were having trouble getting things to work right. So, under the pressure of a deadline, we decided... Posted Jul 01 2004, 04:37 PM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: OnLoad, Rules, Views, Workarounds, Bugs