InfoPath Dev

Good day, Let me start by saying that I am not a programmer in any way... I have created form with various fields, one of which is called ship, is a drop down box, which gets it's data from an XML data source (which contains ships names and their callsigns (separate fields). How on earth can I get a text box to autofill with the ships callsign when the ship is selected in the ship drop down box? Idiot proof help is gratefully requested

Hi Jullian,

 This can be done with filters on the data source. Because this is a fairly common question, I've whipped up a tutorial and posted it on my site: http://www.elliottbeaty.com/wordpress/2010/08/microsoft-infopath-2010-xml-drill-down/

 Good luck

Elliott

Hello,

Here are some related entries in our blog:

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/14/Create-a-Repeating-Cascading-List-from-a-Flat-Data-Source.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/david/archive/2007/08/23/implementing-cascading-dropdowns-in-forms-server.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/matt/archive/2006/04/18/Automatically-Populate-Fields-from-a-Drop_2D00_Down-Selection.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/matt/archive/2006/05/23/Filter-a-Repeating-Drop_2D00_Down-List-on-Previous-and-Future-Selections.aspx

Hope these help you solve your issue.