InfoPath Dev

Hey guys,

 I was reading up Hilary's blog about Hack manifest xsf to filter the target of a rule. I'm trying to update a group inside a group, I've managed to change xsf to reflect what was needed below

www.infopathdev.com/blogs/Hilary/archive/2009/06/07/hack-manifest-xsf-to-filter-the-target-of-a-rule.aspx 

myfields >OrgChart>Manager is the group, I'm trying to update a field inside the Manager group called Manager_ but only update where the Employee in the same group is equal to tDReport which is defined somewhere else.

 Below is my .xsf section, I'm starting to think the xpath is incorrect? But when I go to the Rules, it shows Manager_[Employee=tDReport] already which I assume is correct.

<xsf:assignmentAction targetField="../my:OrgChart/my:Manager/my:Manager_[../my:OrgChart/my:Manager/my:Employee=../my:temp/my:tDReport]" expression="my:tEmp"></xsf:assignmentAction> 

 

Hilary or anyone have any insights? :)  Much appreciated

So - are you saying that it shows the resolved XPath? That should be correct. Is it not working as anticipated? Oh, Manager group repeats? What is the full XPath to the tDReport field?

 I think the tDReport path could be flawed, the tDReport is in another group. Yes, the Manager group repeats as well

myfields>temp>tDReport , but in the .xsf I've used .../my:temp/my:tDReport

Would that be it? 

So maybe ../my:OrgChart/my:Manager[my:Employee=../my:temp/my:tDReport]/my:Manager_

 Ahhh that didn't work :( It seems at the Rules side, it does not Update anything. Been inspecting it for a while, manager remains the same. :(

 I played around with it Hilary, I switched into comparing a different field where instead of Employee = tDReport, I used EmployeeNumber = '123456' and it did update the correct repeating item. Should I have a concat within the original line and add ' to it?

Current line:

<xsf:assignmentAction targetField="../my:OrgChart/my:Manager/my:Manager_[../my:Employee =../my:tDReport ]" expression="../my:UpdateMgr"></xsf:assignmentAction>

 

Can you attach your form in a reply under the options tab? I think the XPath in the target field is still incorrect for tdReport.

 Hi Hilary,

I attached the actual manifest, the file is too big. Will this open up and u can create a version of the form?  

Nope, just the manifest is not enough. Maybe put the template on dropbox or something?

Hi neeenz,

You have "../my:tDReport" in your expression. This says that the tDReport field is /my:myfields/my:OrgChart/my:Manager/tDReport which is incorrect as per the information you provide. You should try using /my:myfields/my:temp/my:tDReport instead (or whatever the actual path is).

So it would be:

<xsf:assignmentAction targetField="../my:OrgChart/my:Manager/my:Manager_[../my:Employee =/my:myfields/my:temp/my:tDReport ]" expression="../my:UpdateMgr"></xsf:assignmentAction>

Thanks for the file. This works: targetField="../my:OrgChart/my:Manager[my:Employee = ../../my:temp/my:tDReport]/my:Manager_"

 Sorry for the late reply Hilary! That worked so well!!! Can't believe placements matter, can't thank you enough as I've been trying out everything to solve this ;) Thanks again Hilary

 Hi Hilary,

 How are you? Needed to tweak the condition for this one, but it seems it's not triggering it properly. Am I setting the True section wrong? So before, Employee has to match tDReport, now I only need to update repeating items that have Selected = true, what did I do wrong here? :)

../my:OrgChart/my:Manager[my:Selected = true()]/my:Manager_ 

 

Thank you

 

 Hey everyone,

 Figured this out, ../my:OrgChart/my:Manager[my:Selected = true()]/my:Manager_ 

true() should be replaced by string(true()), which turns the expression targetField="../my:OrgChart/my:Manager[my:Selected = string(true())]/my:Manager_"

Hope this helps ;)