InfoPath Dev

 Hello all,

I have a field called [ProjectIni] that want the value to be the initials of a text field called [ProjectName]. The text field can have multiple words in it however the formula I'm using is only extract the first letter from the first word and the first 2 letters from the second word.

 concat(substring(Project, 1, 1), substring(substring-after(Project, " "), 1, 1), substring(substring-after(Project, " "), 2, 1))

 This is fine if the ProjectName is only one or two words, however that is rarely the case.

What am I missing? I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't use three or four words in [ProjectName]

any ideas?

d

Please see attached.

It works up to 15 spaces, Infopath limitation.  Hopefully that is enough for what you need.  You could get it to do more if using code, but a rules based version works for most cases.

I got it to work using 3 fields. 2 of them can be hidden.

Field 1 is the input field.

Field 2 is an eval field that checks if field 3 has any " " in the field

Field 3 is the finished field

Field 4 is a counter field

If you look at each field you can see the rules applied to them.

Field 1 has 1 rules, it copies itself into Field 3 and sets Field 4 to 0.
Field 2 has no rules.
Field 3 has 3 rules, one that evals to Field 2, one that adds 1 to field 4 and concats back on itself, and one that finishes the concat when there are no more " "
Field 4 has no rules

There may be a better way to do this, but this way works.

 WOW, thanks leoffneym,

That was exactly what I needed. It was so much easier to accomplish in excel. Thanks for your help.

DWTKent

 If your form has qRules in it, there should be a fairly easy way to do this using the Replace command, but I don't entirely understand your original post. You are taking the first letter from the first word, and the first two letters of the second word. What are the logistics in play there? What would be the desired output if there were three words?