InfoPath Dev

Hello,

I've recently started using InfoPath and I've read many blogs for issues but this one seems to stump me. I currently have a list inside SharePoint with 2 columns (one with applications and one with people involved). As of now I have it to where once the application is selected, the contact selector will be populated with the people associated with that application using the formula "Contacts[ApplicationName = current()]". If only one person populates the contact selector then it works; however, if multiple people are populated to the contact selector it shows a red line under them saying they can't be found. I even tried putting a ";" between the names inside the list but no luck. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi Ryan,

I think this is a limitation of the Contact Selector. We created a separate contact selector that uses Active Directory and supports search. You could use that to promote multiple users, but you'd have to have separate fields in your form for Contact1, Contact2, etc. and set those to the indexed values in the repeaintg group: my:repeatingGroup[1]/my:contact, my:repeatingGroup[2]/my:contact, etc. Then, you promote the Contact1, Contact2, ... values to your SharePoint columns.

SharePoint columns don't handle repeating data very well, and I would recommend looking at the SubmitToSharePointList functionality in Qdabra's qRules or submitting the values to a database (via a tool such as Qdabra's DBXL) and setting up a data view to show contacts as sub rows underneath a primary row for your form.

Good luck!

Thanks for the help, I'll look into doing that.