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Is it possible to display the name and value fields of a drop down list in separate text boxes. I have the values for the ddl coming from the main connection but need to display both values on the infopath form

Hi,

Welcome on board!

Yes it's possible! But you need to modify your view.xsl!

If your ddl is in a section you can make a preserve code block for don't have to modify your view each time that you publish


Find your ddl in your view it appear like this:

<select class="xdComboBox xdBehavior_Select" title="" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" size="1" xd:xctname="DropDown" xd:CtrlId="CTRL488" xd:binding="func" xd:boundProp="value" value="" tabIndex="0">
	<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="func"/></xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="function-available('xdXDocument:GetDOM')">
			<option/>
			<xsl:variable name="val" select="func"/>
			<xsl:if test="not(xdXDocument:GetDOM("getFunction")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:getFunctionResponse/tns:getFunctionResult/TabEigZb/EigZb[text=$val] or $val='')">
				<option selected="selected">
					<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="$val"/></xsl:attribute>
					<xsl:value-of select="$val"/>
				</option>
			</xsl:if>
			<xsl:for-each select="xdXDocument:GetDOM("getFunction")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:getFunctionResponse/tns:getFunctionResult/TabEigZb/EigZb">
				<option>
					<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="text"/></xsl:attribute>
					<xsl:if test="$val=text">
						<xsl:attribute name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute>
					</xsl:if>
					<xsl:value-of select="kurz"/>
				</option>
			</xsl:for-each>
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
			<option>
				<xsl:value-of select="func"/> //enter here the second value that you need to display in the ddl
			</option>
		</xsl:otherwise>
	</xsl:choose>
</select>   

Each time that you modify the entry in your ddl you need to make this one more time! The only possibility for that is make a preserve code block but if you do this you can no longer edit your ddl in infopath design mode

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Thierry

Thanks Thierry