InfoPath Dev

 Im using Infopath Designer 2010. Here's the requirement.

There are five dropdown list boxes in infopath form with same two values in each dropdown list box (lets say values are A and B)

User cant select  the value "B" from these dropdown list boxes more than two times. If user selects B for third time, message box pops out stating " You cant select B more than two times"..

How can we do this in infopath 2010 using out of the box features???

Plz help me out...Thanks in advance...

If you are only concerned with counting the values of B, you can have a temporary variable keep a count of how many instances of B there are in the dropdown.  When a dropdown is set, simply check whether the value is B and then increment your temp variable.  If the value ever goes above 2, you can show a validation error.

Can you tell the steps to achieve that???

Thanks

Create an integer field called "temp" and set the default value to 0.  Then select your first dropdown and create an Action rule that if the dropdown field = B then Set a field's value -> temp = temp + 1.  You'll also want to do the opposite in case they change the value to A.  So create another rule that says if dropdown field <> B then Set a field's value -> temp = temp - 1.  Do this for all of the dropdowns.

Then you just need to create a validation rule that checks if temp > 2 and display an error.

Hi Anson,

Thanks a lot...That helped me out...:)

What if there is restriction in selection of Value "A" too...Lets say user can select only one A and two Bs....If user selects more than that, some msg box should pops up...How to handle this one???? Thanks in advance...Hope to get your reply...