Newbie Questions

Re: I have given up with VSTA and Infopath

mrmmills — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:35:11 GMT

Look at my post at http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/t/9567.aspx I succesfully built a web service in C# that can list all the Distribution Lists in a container ( or in my case I filtered the Distribution lists beginning with "_Sales - " ). My InfoPath form has a field that is a a drop down list of all the Distribution groups matching my filter. My second WebMethod allows you to type in the name of a Distribution list and it returns all the members of that list to choose from.

The logic appears to be the same fo Security Groups, Distribution Lists, or even OU's. You can create a drop down list for the members of any of them.

I agree with you this stuff is a !@$#* for people like me who have no porgamming experience - I got some help that pointed me in the right direction, I am now trying to take the Group selected from the first web method and point it to the second web method so my second drop down automatically uses that group to list its members in a drop down.

Good luck

Re: I have given up with VSTA and Infopath

Clay Fox — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:05:32 GMT

Have you looked at the AD websevice from Qdabra? It is cheap, requires no client code, and can be added very easily as a data connection.

I have given up with VSTA and Infopath

bradyw — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:58:58 GMT

I have tired several ways to add code in the load event of my form. It works fine in Infopath but as soon as I open it in SharePoint via the browser the form does not re-populate with ldap info. Plus i have over 12 forms and if i add the code to each forms load event. It appears from what I have read and seen that you need to copy the entire c# project code to server is this correct? My thought is a web service that you can create once and added it to each form. I think I have asked this before, but are there any good examples out there. keep in mind i am a newbie to .net.