Newbie Questions

Re: Duplicationg text boxes.

Potemkine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:44 GMT

Hi, yes it's possible.

On your data sources, right click on your date field, property, click on fx and type "Today()", if you want the date and time, try Now().

Re: Duplicationg text boxes.

Sam92 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:28:07 GMT

Thank you so much!!

Another question. Is there any way of setting the date picker to automatically set to todays date so that it does not have to be clicked and done manually?

Re: Duplicationg text boxes.

Potemkine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:19:01 GMT

Hi Sam, you can do that with rules.

Right click on your first text box, rules, add action, select "set a field value". On field, select your last field and on value select your first field

Re: Duplicationg text boxes.

Sam92 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:16:36 GMT

Can you please explain how to both of those things. As i said i am very very new to InfoPath. I have been thrown in at the deep end, with very little computer and programming skills.

Re: Duplicationg text boxes.

Jimmy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:13:40 GMT

If you want users to be able to modify the name in either place, just use two text boxes bound to the same field.

If you only want them to enter the name at the top of the field, you can use an expression box at the bottom that shows the value of the textbox's field.

Duplicationg text boxes.

Sam92 — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:02:03 GMT

Hello,

Im very new to using InfoPath, but nee dto use it for work. I was wondering if there is rules i can set so that when i type a name into a txtbox at the top of my form the same info will also go into a txt box at the bottom of my form without having to type it twice and the form will be completed by three different people and instead of having to type the same info out i would love to be able to have it so that it automatically puts this info into another txt box for me. Hopefully this makes sence.

Thanks Sam