InfoPath Dev

Hi there. Is it possible to do a drop down list that has headers? Can I use what seems to be an OptGroup Function? Example: Fruit - Apple Orange Banana Vegetable - Broccoli Eggplant Protein - Steak Chicken I don't want to be able to select Fruit, Vegetable, Protein. Just those that are under it. PS. Sorry I don't know how to do formatting on this thing. Thanks!

The following link is an example of what I am looking to do in InfoPath. I am looking to do an optgroup function. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_optgroup

Interesting. InfoPath doesn't do this out of the box. I don't know if you would be able to customize the view XSL to do this, but it could be worth a try - you can save your form as source files (from the Publish menu) and then modify the XSL. Right click manifest.xsf in the source files and select Design to open back up in design mode.

 I was curious so I tried it. See attached (save the file locally, right click and select design to open in design mode, then preview).

 One more thing - I was still curious, so I tested in the browser. I'm attaching a screenshot - in IE, Chrome & MS Edge browsers, the optgroup did not display correctly. But it worked in preview & filler, so it depends how you'll be using the form.

Wow! Very Cool! I wonder how you would do this if you're populating the drop down from a SharePoint list? Thanks for the help! jason

How would you know what options from the SharePoint list had what option group? Would it be another column in the list? You'll be using this form in InfoPath filler?

Yes, I would make a SharePoint list with a header column and subheader column. I believe could go back to the form to only use the infopath filler as we have an enterprise microsoft license throughout the company.

 Okay - here's a screenshot of my form and list. I got this to work in Filler. My "header" column is named "Target Library". My value column is title. I'll post again w/ my sample (which, of course, won't preview for you because you don't have access to my SharePoint site, but you can look at the secondary data source schema and at my XSLT).

 Here is my sample form.

P.S. > Thanks for the fun challenge! :)

You are amazing!!!!!

It doesn't seem to want to group the drop downs. It adds a header over each selection instead of grouping them and adding a header. Following the same code.

Can I take a peek at your form? attach it under the Options tab... it may be tomorrow before I have a chance to look tho.

Oh! I see the issue, I think. You have a casing issue. You sometimes have it cased "iuji" and other times "Iuji". Which is it in the data source?