Newbie Questions

Re: Similar sections but different data?

Jimmy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:53:34 GMT

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't.

Re: Similar sections but different data?

rolliehawk — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:48:48 GMT

Okay, this definitely seems to be the way to go. One more question about this: is there a way to make all of those duplicates show up in the design view?

Re: Similar sections but different data?

rolliehawk — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:34:50 GMT

Yes, that makes sense. I'll have to play with this some more but I think you've got me on the right track!

Re: Similar sections but different data?

Jimmy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:21:24 GMT

If you think you'll be making a lot of changes to the form down the road, a repeating section that cannot have items added or removed might be a good solution. This would allow you to set up the controls just once, and have them work exactly the same way for each workday. In Tools->Default Values... you will see a dialog that allows you to have the form preset with a certain number of items in a repeating section (seven in this case, naturally). Care to give that a try?

Similar sections but different data?

rolliehawk — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:55:15 GMT

This is probably something simple and obvious but I'm not even sure what this is called in order to search for it. :)

I'm working on a timesheet form in Infopath. It covers one week. The first day I have set up with all the entries and calculations working fine. Now I'm starting to add the rest of the days.

Thinking like a programmer, it doesn't make sense to recreate everything for each day of the week. I don't *think* this is something I should do as repeating sections but I may be wrong. I thought if I created a new section for each day, I would be able to reuse the same fields in a manner similarly to how I can in repeating sections but then make calculations on them separately by referencing them using the section.

More specifically, in the section called Sunday there is a repeating section WorkTimeBlocks where staff enter information. Also in the Sunday section there is the field TotalWorkTime that calculates the total time from the repeated section. This part works fine. But it seems like there should be a way to have sections for Monday, Tuesday, etc. that use the same repeating section and TotalWorkTime field without having to create MondayTotalWorkTime, MondayWorkTimeBlocks, and so forth. I could do it that way but thinking down the line this will make editing the form more time consuming than it seems like it ought to be.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining this very well but I'd appreciate any ideas or insight.