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I have a question regarding creating a button to expand/collapse a section in InfoPath 2007 instead of using options buttons as is displayed below.  What I want is one button that shows a ‘+’ sign and when clicked it will expand the section and show a ‘–‘ sign.  Then, when clicked again, it will collapse the section and show the ‘+’ sign again.  I can’t find any forums that discuss this solution.   

Is there further information that is needed in order to help me?

Address
Show  Hide
Company Name:
Company Logo:
Address Line 1:
Address Line 2:
Zip Code:
City:
State:
Country:
Website:

  

 

 Have a look at the attached template.  All of its logic lies in conditional formatting, rules, and a secondary data source.

Hi and welcome to the InfoPath Dev forums,

What you want to do is actually pretty easy - you should be able to do this yourself.

We actually have a free template part that you can use, here is a blog about it and a link to download the XTP:

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/mel_balsamo/archive/2009/01/14/hide-show-section-template-part.aspx

I have also attached a very simple sample form so you can see how you can do this on your own - pay attention to the rules being used to set the "ShowHide" field value (that keeps track if a seciton should be shown or hidden and if the + or - button need to be hidden as well).  Using conditional formatting you can easily show or hide a section based upon what value the users selects by pressing + or -

Hope this helps

Ted

Awesome guys....Thanks a ton.

Do either of you have much experience with Infopath and Sharepoint?  Could I catch you offline for a question regarding submitting to a Sharepoint list, or should I post a new forum?

Hi,

We have a lot of experience with both (we both work for Qdabra Software).

If you start a new post in this forum though (SharePoint fourm) we or others can try to answer:

http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/46.aspx

Ted

Hi Ted,

The download link seems to be down.

http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/TemplateParts.aspx

Regards,
Hong Yip

Hey Jimmy could you plz give step by step execution of the infopath form which u hve attached. We are using infopath 2010. It will be very helpfull for me.

Hello

I am a newbie at InfoPath but really excited about what I will be able to do with it. I have a big project and was wondering if you could give me step by step instruction to how you developed the template you posted on collapse/expand button.

 

thanks

sonia