InfoPath Dev

Hello,

 In InfoPath is it possible to filter items pulled into a dropdown from a SharePoint List based on metadata in that list and selections made by the user on the form?

 Thanks for your help.

Hi,

Can you verify below link.

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/06/Create-a-Cascading-List-from-a-Flat-Data-Source.aspx

Hi,

Verify below links once. It may help you.

http://cglessner.blogspot.com/2008/06/sharepoint-rpc-protocol-and-infopath.html

http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/archive/2005/01/24/359669.aspx

Hope this helps.

Hi,

In the above link which is given by Anuma, they have used xml file as a secondary data source. In your case the share point list is the secondary data source. So you should use the SharePoint list fields for filtering.

 This is a browser based form.  Does filtering work in browser based forms?

HI,

Actually filtering will not work for Dropdowns in the Web browser forms.

 Can you verify below link.

http://blueinfopath.blogspot.com/2008/11/cascading-drop-downs-in-infopath-web.html

It looks like I have to use web services for this.

There exists a web service called GetListItems as part of Lists.asmx on every SharePoint installation (look in _vti_bin directory) but it seems to get this web service working with InfoPath I would need to write a Proxy web service.  

Thank you Microsoft for providing a web service that needs another web service to make it work!! :(