InfoPath Dev

Hi, I am trying to work out how to change the opening view based on a date. I need to be able to show a specific view if the date today is greater than a specific static date. I realise that this needs to be an expression and it needs to be a rule in the 'Open Behaviour' option in the Form Options; but I cant work out the expression for the condition? Can anyone please help on this? I have tried this 'If (today()) >= "23/09/2008" but this causes an error. I have tried to find the answer in this site and Goggled it, but no luck. I guess this is because it is a simple answer than no one has blogged about it :-(

Thanks for any help.

 Phil

Hi,

Use the following expression in the Open behavior rule in FormOptions.

msxsl:string-compare(xdDate:Today(), "2008-09-23") >= 0

For that follow the below steps.

1.       Open the form in design mode.

2.       Go to Tools -> FormOptions->Open Behaviour->Rules.

3.       Place the above expression as condition in the ‘Rules for Opening Form’ window.

4.       Set the Action to switch view and select the view whichever you need.

Hope this will help to you.

Thank you verymuch for this. Is there a site that has examples of these types of expressions? I have tried to find some but havent been lucky yet. Thank you again for your help and answer on this.

Phil

Hi,

Here is some samples for xpath related examples.

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/tags/Formulas+and+XPath/default.aspx