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Last post 02-21-2010 10:35 PM by Qazi Anis. 5 replies.
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  • 02-17-2010 03:36 PM

    • dswick
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    Hyperlinks - rich text box

    I need the user to be able to enter several hypelinks when submitting the form.  My first approach was to just add a rich textbox and let them do it that way but since I am connecting to SQL2005 it appears that binding a rich text box to SQL is not an easy straight forward task.

    I then tried to place them in a  repeating table and each time a new table entry was generate the same hypelink appears.

    I could use a standard text box but then when the form is viewed you must cut and past the hyperlink into a browser.

    I would love a suggestion on how to allow the user to reference multiple hyper links in a form that is being connected to SQL2005. 

     Thanks,

    Dean 

     

     

  • 02-17-2010 09:10 PM In reply to

    Re: Hyperlinks - rich text box

    just create a repeating table with 3 columns

    1 column of type hyper link

    2 and 3 columns text

    in the properties of first column specify column2 as data source to link

    and column 2 as data source to Display

     

    Qazi Anis
    Technical Architect
    Bitwise Inc
  • 02-18-2010 09:04 AM In reply to

    • dswick
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    Re: Hyperlinks - rich text box

    Ok - i am a little closer.  I was not able to do as you instructed - everytime I tried to add the repeating table, infopath insisted that I bind it to repeating goup or table and since I do want to capture the informaiton I did the following: 

    I have created a child table in my SQL DB and established the relationship with the parent.  The child table, "hlink", has the following fields:

    hlink - varchar
    description - varchar
    pkey (rowguid linked to paent via relationship)
    hkey (rowguid as the unique identifier for the child table)

    I have added this table to the existing datasource in infopath

    I have created a repeating table and linked all of the text boxes to the fields in the new datasource

    If I leave the hlink text box as a "textbox" then the hyperlink is not active
    If I change it to type hyperlink nothing shows up

    I feel I almost have it but need a little more help --

    Thanks in advance for your help 

     

     

     

  • 02-18-2010 10:28 PM In reply to

    check if this helps

    Qazi Anis
    Technical Architect
    Bitwise Inc
  • 02-19-2010 07:52 AM In reply to

    • dswick
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    Re: Hyperlinks - rich text box

    I do not see anything in your post???

  • 02-21-2010 10:35 PM In reply to

    Re: Hyperlinks - rich text box

    check the attachment(just under the title, you will see a hyper link) dswick.xsn, let me know if you are not able to get that in the above post,

    Qazi Anis
    Technical Architect
    Bitwise Inc
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