InfoPath Dev

Hi I hope you can help.
We are creating a Time and attendance form, we have connected the form to SQL and can query and submit data in a repeating table. When the user opens the form he gets a repeating table where they can see 7 rows, one for each day of the week, they have the option of selecting a previous week and running the query to amend historical data (works) however if they select a week where there is no data, ie they are entering data, the repeating table collapses to 0 rows with a insert row option(great), what I am trying to do is get the form to run the query but keep the repeating table with 7 rows, is there a action I can run, or some code, I am very new to managed code.

Hi blackduke77 and welcome to the forum!

There are a couple of ways to do this with code. I will provide some psuedo code below

IXMLDOMNode nParent = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSinglNode( "/my:myFields/my:group1" );

// Create a sample node
IXMLDOMNode nSampleChild = nParent.FirstChild.cloneNode(true);

// Remove the old nodes
((IXMLDOMSelection)nParent.selectNodes( "my:group2" )).removeAll();

// Create new nodes

string[] days = { "M", "T", ... , "S" };

for( int i = 0; i < 7; i++ )
{
  IXMLDOMNode nNewDay = nSampleChild.cloneNode(true);
  nNewDay.selectSingleNode( "my:Day" ).text = days;
  nParent.appendChild( nNewDay );
}

One problem with this is that the node might not be there when you try to make the sample. To solve this you could load the XML from the template.xml:

IXMLDOMDocument tempdom = thisXDocument.CreateDOM();
tempdom.async = false;
tempdom.validationOnParse = false;
tempdom.load( "template.xml" );

If all else fails you can also get the sample node in the OnLoad event, store it in a global variable, and clone it as desired. Hope this helps, good luck!

Thanks for the great responce and so fast, however my colleague and I have no idea what it all means..... Would you be able to help me out :) could be worth some beer!!!

Thanks