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I want to clear all controls in clear button click. We can set a rule for each control but i have near about 300 controls. Is there any method to do this easily?

Hi

 Add a button to your Form, called it Clear
Add a rule to the button
Select one action: Open a new form to fill in + the Form Template ID or location

Frederik Van Lierde

Hi Frederik Van Lierde 

It gives error when we uses validation in that form. and it cannot work after two itterations.

 

Thanks and regrds,

Pundya.

Hi please post some thing

Hi,

We can do this with code. Place all the controls in a group. In the button click event, replace that group node with the node which is taken from Sample data.

How can we select that group programatically. what property does this?

Hi,

Add a Group in the main data source and move all the fields in to that group (ex: group5). After that place the following code in the clear button click event.

[InfoPathEventHandler(MatchPath = "CTRL15_5", EventType = InfoPathEventType.OnClick)]

public void CTRL15_5_OnClick(DocActionEvent e)

{

IXMLDOMNode groupNode = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:group5");

IXMLDOMDocument2 sampleDataDom = (IXMLDOMDocument2)thisXDocument.CreateDOM();

sampleDataDom.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "<write your form name space>");

sampleDataDom.load("sampledata.xml");

IXMLDOMNode sampleGroupNode = sampleDataDom.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:group5");

 

IXMLDOMNode groupParentNode = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields");

groupParentNode.replaceChild(sampleGroupNode, groupNode);

}

 

 

Here group5 -> is the group under which the controls are placed.

myFields -> parent node of group5

Perfect!  Exactly what i was looking for.  I did make one modification, and that was that I closed the existing form, not asking to save changes before opening the new form.  That way they don't end up with hundreds (in theory) of forms open, but only one at all times, either the one they are working on, or the new one they are submitting.  The idea is that they will submit via email before they clear.

 You can use "New Record" option available in the button properties, which is basically resets all fields and ready to enter new record.

Check the attached image

I am trying to do something similar. I can't seem to find this option under my buttons though; I have a data connection to a web service from the infopath form.

Strange, but I don't find the "New Record" option from the button properties.

InfoPath Version: 2007 SP2 MSO

Found the answer to my question, "If the form is connected to a database or Web service, this action clears the values on the form so that a user can enter new data."

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA100964011033.aspx

does your form uses database connection string? make sure your main dataset allows to submit the form. check this link http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011199501033.aspx the action is created when you drag and drop the record set. try to drag a data set as table/detail view any other view...and then try looking the drop down again (you can delete the unnecessary table/detail view later)

This link did it for me:

 http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2009/08/clear-reset-fields-infopath-3-lines-code/

I am using InfoPath 2010 and my button properties doesn't have a New Form selection or anything like that. How is it that your version does?