InfoPath Dev

Gday,

Given the following scenario:
Department has many Teachers

Department mandatory fields include - Dept ID, Dept Name
Teachers mandatory fields include - Teacher ID, Teacher Name

How do i change fields settings or form settings so that department details can be entered without having to fill out the mandatory fields for the teachers. But if the user does fill out teachets details then perform validation. Would i need to create separate form (This is last resort, really need these two tables on the one form)?

regards.

Hi,

Are all your fields on the same View? Department data + details / Teachers + details?
At what point do you try to submit?

Regards,

Franck Dauché

Hi Franck,

Yes, all the details will stored on the one view. Im planning to have just a single button to SUBMIT details(Ideal scenario). Or should i create two buttons, one to submit dept and the other to submit teachers details?

Regards
a.

Hi,

In that case, what triggers the validation that you don't want? I am confused here.

Regards,

Franck Dauché

One of the first things I read when learning InfoPath is that regardless of which view the user is looking at, all schema validations must be met in order to submit. This is because the form is bound to the rules of the entire schema.

One way I found to get around this was not put the most generic business rules into the schema definition but the do scripting validation based on view that is currently visible. So instead of making a field like teacher id not allowed to be empty in the data source, I would write code that would check for a teacher id based on the view that is currently visibile. If the teacher id were blank, I would then add an error to the errors collection which would disable the submit button.

Yes, vt, that's why I asked if everything was one 1 view and it seems to be. So, validation should happen only during Submit.
Am I missing something here absMing? How many views total in your form?

Regards,

Franck Dauché