InfoPath Dev

Hi everyone,
I am adding a drop down box in infopath that has every state and province. How can I do this so I don't need to manually imput each one?

Thanks in advance

Hi and welcome to our forum. The best way is to create a separate XML file with this information and then add it as a Data Source which the dropdown can use. The XML file would look something like:

<StatesProvinces>
<StateProvince>California</StateProvince>
<StateProvince>Oregon</StateProvince>
<StateProvince>Washington</StateProvince>
<StateProvince>British Columbia</StateProvince>
</StatesProvinces>

You of course fill in the rest. Create this in notepad and save the file and rename it with a .XML extension. Then in InfoPath create your dropdown, select to look up options from a data connection, and add in a receive data connection that uses this XML file you created.

Once again thankyou SHiraz, but once again I have a quick question. Like in my other topic if I have the template for an individual and stateprovince is one of the fields, will it fill out the textdrop or do I need to stick with text fields?

It's ok to still have the dropdown. You just have to be sure that in your "template" the exact same value is used for the state/province as corresponds in your state/province lookup.

Excellent, thankyou for all of your help, on both topics!
You have an good day.

You're welcome. Glad to help out. :)