Newbie Questions

Re: Alternating text value in Repeating Table

Tethibogz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:11:54 GMT

Thanks Jimmy! I used the simple method that you gave. It works great.

Re: Alternating text value in Repeating Table

Jimmy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:41:22 GMT

If you don't need the "Agent" and "Guest" labels actually stored in the XML (i.e. their meaning is assumed based on their order in the list), you could try something like in the attached template. I've simply used conditional formatting (right click the "Agent" and "Guest" expression boxes and click Conditional formatting... to see what I've done) to hide one label or the other in each row.

If you want "Agent" or "Guest" to be stored in a field, you could try a technique described on this page:

http://www.tkachenko.com/blog/archives/000156.html

Basically you would set the default value of the field to:

concat(substring("Agent", number(count(../preceding-sibling::my:group2) mod 2 = 1) * string-length("Agent") + 1), substring("Guest", number(count(../preceding-sibling::my:group2) mod 2 = 0) * string-length("Guest") + 1))

It looks complicated, but you can use it as-is, just replacing the my:group2 part with the actual name of the repeating node.

Alternating text value in Repeating Table

Tethibogz — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:15:18 GMT

Hi to all,

My boss just introduced Infopath to me and his requirements is to have a conversation table for our agent and guest. the first field shows an alternate text between Agent and Guest everytime the insert item will be pressed. The second field will be the conversation details. Is it easy? Please help... thanks

Agent

Guest

Agent

Guest

and so on...