Newbie Questions

Re: InfoPath and 'Default Value' on a field changing

bretrowlinson — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:15:26 GMT

Thanks for the help. I agree, I like the using the 'open rule' method.

I will start to use that for my forms.

Thanks!

Re: InfoPath and 'Default Value' on a field changing

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:42:50 GMT

There is a checkbox in the properties for the field that you can select to prevent the field from updating when the formula is recalculated. Generally, though, instead of default values I use Open Rules. Set a condition on the rule to only fire if the field is blank and then set the value in the rule action.

Re: InfoPath and 'Default Value' on a field changing

swathip — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:41:15 GMT

Hi,

I have verified the same as you mentioned. It is working fine for me. Can you check are you setting that value from any where other than default value.

InfoPath and 'Default Value' on a field changing

bretrowlinson — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:31:54 GMT

I was just wondering how people handled this situation:

I create a form, and typically put a 'date and time' control on the form, and have get a default value using 'now()'.

This works just fine, but if I reopen that form (from a SharePoint repository, or from a SQL DB) it repopulates that control with the current date/time, not the one that it was saved as.

How do people workaround this issue?

Thanks!!