InfoPath Dev

Hello all,

 There have been a lot of very helpful and informative posts about taking values checked in a multi-select list box and concatenating them into an expression field or text box - but what about the reverse?

SITUATION:  I am building a form that will be used to assign employees permissions to services and products based on their role.  When we select a job title from a dropdown, I'd like a rule to fire off that sets values in other fields. So far, this hasn't been a problem with populating radio buttons, dropdowns, text boxes, etc..  However, I have a multi-select list box that populates using a SharePoint list for values.  I'd like to pass values to it so that certain items will be checked.  But when I pass a value to it, it simply adds another checkbox with all the values I want listed one after another. 

 Has anyone done this before with any success?  How did you go about it?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I wouldn't use a Multi-Select List box for this. Just use a repeating table that looks like one. You can always concatenate the results into a single string later if you want using the eval-eval technique.

Hi Patrick,

 I need to do the above explained scenario as I have a multi select list box - which needs to get its values from an external list based on some values entered in other fields in the form.

Can anyone help me with this ?

I am facing the same problem:

On the one side I have a SharePoint list containing a Choice field allowing multiple selections (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Construction). On the other side there's an InfoPath form that should load the checked values from one entry (e.g. Sales AND Construction).

When trying to access the values over a data connection in two different ways, my result is either this one (the given result just contains the first value):

  Marketing

x Sales

  Construction

or that one (the given result is not ticking the single values, InfoPath creates a new value...):

  Marketing

  Sales

  Construction

x SalesConstruction

Unfortunately, I haven't found a solution to display my list entry the following way in the InfoPath form:

  Marketing

x Sales

x Construction

Do you have any idea on how to solve this problem?