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Hi -- you are doing this via code? Post your code sample, and that will help us help you better....

Thank you for your reply.  Here is my code, I am using InfoPath 2007:

XPathNavigator root = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();

XPathNavigator field = root.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:group3/my:group4/my:group9/my:group10", NamespaceManager); //Contains textboxes for tester and feedback

if (newNode.MoveToAttribute("nil", "")) //It was recommended to this if there were schema errors. I don't think this evalutates to true

group.AppendChild(newNode); //*** Always adds nodes to first outer section

else

innerTesterIter.Current.SetValue(tester); //Put tester's name in "tester" textbox in "inner" section

Can you post a screen shot of your schema? I'm trying to understand what is repeating and what isn't (by the way, it is a good idea to always rename your groups and fields so that they have meaningful names -- it makes everything so much easier!).

When you select the node for the variable you are calling "group", you are always selecting the first one, if group 9 is repeating. If you need to loop through a list of group 9's, you need to use and XPathNodeIterator. Then you would use something like this, if group 10 was also repeating -- again without seeing your data structure, I'm making lots of guesses:

 

        XPathNodeIterator group = root.Select("/my:myFields/my:group3/my:group4/my:group9", NamespaceManager);

 

        foreach (XPathNavigator row in group)

        {

            XPathNodeIterator innerGroup = group.Select("my:group10"), NamespaceManager);

 

            foreach (XPathNavigator innerRow in innerGroup)

            {

                XPathNavigator field = innerGroup.SelectSingleNode("my:tester");

                field.SetValue("Happy Tester");

            }

        }

Thanks for the response, I have attached the schema as requested and also the main form. 

To clarify, here is the behaviour I am seeing:

The user enters a workItemId (say 1234) in the workItemId textbox in the first "outer" repeating section.  The user then selects a number of testers from the employeeList drop down (say 5 testers are chosen) and clicks Add Testers.  This causes 5 "inner" repeating sections (green rectangles) to be generated inside the "outer" repeating group (red rectangle).  Also, the "Tester" textbox in each generated section contains a name the user selected.  This works fine for the very first workItemId entered.  That is, the correct number of "inner" repeating sections are generated (i.e. one for each name the user chose from the drop down list) and the respective "Tester" textbox contains the name of a tester.

However, when the user clicks to add a subsequent "outer" repeating section (red rectangle) for another workItemId, (say 5678), and the user clicks Add Testers, all the names (but one) are added to the first "outer" repeating section, which is associated with workItemId 1234.

I would like the 5 testers' names to show up in the "outer" section (red rectangle) for workItemId 5678, just as they did for workItemId 1234.

I hope my description and screenshots have helped to better explain the problem.  Thank you for your help. 

Hi:

First, move your "Add Testers" button into your repeating section that you have outlined in red.

With this line: XPathNavigator group = root.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:group3/my:group4/my:group9", NamespaceManager); you are always selecting the first the group9 group. That is why your testers are being added to the first group.

If you move your button, you can use:

XPathNavigator workItem = e.Source;

This will get you the correct group4 for the red outlined section. From there, you can select group9 for your AppendChild operation, like this:

XPathNavigator testers =  workItem.SelectSingleNode("my:group9", NamespaceManager);

That did the trick!   Thank you so much for all of your help.