InfoPath Dev

I have a project managment form that I built that has a repeating task section with a repeating subtask section underneath.  I use the count function to return a number for each task item.  All is working fine.  What I would like to do is change the color of the top level repeating section which in this case is "Task" based on the row count.

For example, task 1 = blue, task 2 = red, task 3 = blue, task 4 = red.  Pretty much, same color for every other insert.  I can do this by adding a condition based on the count.  However, this is a terrible way of getting this to work.  Not efficient at all.

Any suggestions?

How about just using the xpath "mod" operator? Something like number(position() mod 2) will return 0 or 1 and then you can do conditional formatting on that if it's 0.

 Could you give me an example of this?  Never used that before.

Here is what you gotta do:

Add 2 conditions to the conditional formatting section of your repeating section. Use these two equations. The Mod operator (mod, %) really just gives you a remainder as an output.

5 mod 2 = 1       5/2 has a remainder of 1

6 mod 3 = 0       6/3 has a remainder of 0

Use these two equations.

1. number(position() mod 2) = 0 - then set the shading to what ever color you want.

2. number(position() mod 2) = 1 - then set the shading to what ever color you want.