Newbie Questions

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

nukkumatti — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:47:29 GMT

Oh sorry, it's not a value its the name of your Drop Down List control from where you select your article, may be my:field1 ?

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:47:11 GMT

I Good Nights Rest did the job for me, I've modified the rule to:
xdXDocument:GetDOM("LOCALSALES_ARTICLES")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LOCALSALES_ARTICLES/@UnitPrice[../@ArticleID = current()]
Now the texbox gets populated.

Thanks a million, Jerome.
Without your help I never would have found the solution.

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:08:13 GMT

Since this is the newbie section:
Can you please tell me how i can find the value of "/my:yourDLL"?

I haven't got a clue!

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

nukkumatti — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:12:17 GMT

This should work for you, use this within a rule of your dropdown list and you can fill a textbox with your unit price

xdXDocument:GetDOM("LocalSales_Articles")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LocalSales_Articles/@Expr2[../@Expr1 = current()/../my:yourDDL]

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:24:42 GMT

No,
It's a SQL datasource. In the meanwhile, i experimented with the 'HOW TO' of Greg Collins http://www.infopathdev.com/howto/tutorials/default.aspx?i=9111ef580f95479890fc18fb2c5bac85)
But once again, I cannot alter it so it works against a SQL table iso a XML datafile.

Thanks again for your time!

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

nukkumatti — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:47:05 GMT

Can you post your secondary data source? I guess it's an xml file right ?

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:03:14 GMT

xdXDocument:GetDOM("LOCALSALES_ARTICLES")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LOCALSALES_ARTICLES/@Unitprice[@ArticleID = current()]/@UnitPrice

Gives no result in expression box.
I don't know if this is of any importance but the localsales_articles is a secondary data source to pick the correct article to order.

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

nukkumatti — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:54:29 GMT

try [@ArticleID = current()]/@UnitPrice at the end

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:49:53 GMT

Thanks for your time.
I've changed the Xpath formula to
xdXDocument:GetDOM("LOCALSALES_ARTICLES")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LOCALSALES_ARTICLES/@UnitPrice[@ArticleID = current()]

But still the expressionbox isn't filled in.

Re: Populate expressionbox based on other control

nukkumatti — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:41:43 GMT

HI Hans,

I think you have to use the current() function.

See below example, In my case I use a webservice to populate the values of a drop down list. When the user selects a name from this ddl the mail address is written into another text box. I use this statement within a rule of the ddl but your exbox should work as well.

xdXDocument:GetDOM("Designer")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:getDesignersResponse/tns:getDesignersResult/tns:Credentials[tns:Account = current()]/tns:Mail

Does this help ?

Populate expressionbox based on other control

stumbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:30:19 GMT

I' am trying to full in the article price based on a selected article name. I've added an expressionbox with the formula:
xdXDocument:GetDOM("LOCALSALES_ARTICLES")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LOCALSALES_ARTICLES/@UnitPrice[@ArticleID = 4]

I came up to that solution by reading
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2004/09/13/228881.aspx

If I don't fill in a criterium (leave out [@ArticleID = 4]), I get the first record, so I think my source is OK.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Kind Regards,
Hans (struggling with my first infopath form)

I am using infopath 2003