Newbie Questions

Re: Pull in a variable from an URL

idlehands — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:16:39 GMT

Shiva,

I have a similar situation. When using InfoPath 2007, I'm not sure where to look to grab the URL for a web-based form. I don't see an asset or option for setting a field equal to a URL value. How do I actually get the value of the URL for manipulation in the form?

Thanks.

Re: Pull in a variable from an URL

Shiva — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:00:50 GMT

Hi Gbertrand,

Sorry for the late, by using rules you can set the field value in your InfoPath form. And value to get data after the ‘question mark#%92 using string function we can do this.
By using substring-after(“Hyper link string value", "?") code you can get ID=1 value.

Re: Pull in a variable from an URL

Gbertrand — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:37:49 GMT

Hello.. I was just using those hyperlinks as an example. I want to capture the data past the "question mark" and populate a field in my InfoPath form. I have a series of 5 CBT's that I am publishing within my company. At the end of each CBT is a hyperlink that points to a single InfoPath form. I want to modify each hyperlink to so that it passes data to a form field in the InfoPath form.

Thanks!

Re: Pull in a variable from an URL

Shiva — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:34:15 GMT

Hi Gbertrand Welcome to the Forums,

Your hyperlink ‘Link to#%92 value is hard coded or you are getting this value from other node? If you are hard coded then we do not have a chance to get that value. If those values are getting from some other node then you can easily get that node value.

Pull in a variable from an URL

Gbertrand — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:01:12 GMT

This may be a stupid question, but I can't get my brain around it.

I have a series of 5 hyperlinks each
http://link ?ID=1
http://link ?ID=2
http://link ?ID=3
http://link ?ID=4
http://link ?ID=5

Once someone clicks on the hyperlink, I want the ID number to populate a field in my InfoPath form. Is this possible? If so, is there an easy 'point and click' way to do this.

Thanks!