InfoPath 2010

Re: Convert string to URL?

smonczka — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:37:31 GMT

Patrick thanks for the responce. From what I have been able to tell this is a regular problem for people trying create dynamic links to SharePoint documents. For the moment I have asked the users not to use spaces in thier file names while I work out a fix. As you have stated doing this in InfoPath with Translate and Concat is a time suck. I'm going to try another tactic and see if I can create a workflow that might acomplish the same thing.

Thanks again for your responce.

Re: Convert string to URL?

Patrick Halstead — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:11:43 GMT

Well, first off, you could disable save and use a submit button instead and force the name to not have spaces... :)

If you can't use translate, how about substring and concat? Something like: concat(substring-before(../my:field1, " "), "%20", substring-after(../my:field1, " "))

To do multiple spaces, you'll have to use eval(eval(...)) trick to get it to concatenate. Might take 20 minutes to figure out the expression... but DOABLE.

Once again, though, you're better off just not letting them add spaces or special characters. Just translate those into nothing and force the save by submitting via a custom button in the form and disabling the file-save and file-saveas buttons.

Convert string to URL?

smonczka — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:34:41 GMT

How can I convert a string such as "https://portal.com/test text.doc" to "https://portal.com/test%20text.doc".

I am pulling in SharePoint list field that has a URL in it. I am then placing that information a HyperLink control on the form.

When I test the link in the client (InfoPath) the link opens up as https://portal.com/test%20text.doc

But when I open up the form in SharePoint (as a browser based form) it opens the link as https://portal.com/test text.doc and can not find the document.

I have tried using the Translate Function to add the "%20" to the string this pull the field in as text and the link in the form will not work. I have also tried concat the string by adding " " around the url but this caused problems with " example... concat(" " ",translate(url, " ", "%20")," " "). I was hoping this would return... "https://portal.com/test%20text.doc"

Any ideas would be appreciated

Thanks