Newbie Questions

Re: Auto fill fields

eg10013 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:08:31 GMT

Thanks for your suggestion. I already try to set the condition to another field must be blank. That will be OK if I only allow users select once.

Re: Auto fill fields

Jimmy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:38:41 GMT

You can create a rule as the first rule in one of the fields' set of rules that has a condition, and the option "Stop processing rules when this rule finishes." That should stop the infinite looping, but it's up to you to determine what the stop condition should be.

Re: Auto fill fields

Qazi Anis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:19:18 GMT

as far as i understand,you cant have rules on two fields to update each other, they will simply run into infinite recurrssion.

Auto fill fields

eg10013 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:30:48 GMT

I have two drop-down fields and need to auto fill value base on another field value in both way. I follow the instruction in http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2003/autofill-fields-infopath-dropdown-selection-secondary-data-source.htm to add rules in both fields. If I just enable one rule, it works correctly. However, if I enable rules in both fields, nothing show up in both field. I guest it runs into a infinity loop situation. Field A's rule changes value in field B, then field B's rule fires back to change field A value...I cannot find an "exit" or "change" condition for rules. Any suggestion of how to fix this problem will be appreciated.