https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/39.aspxNew to InfoPath? Search to see if your question has already been answered. If it has not, then ask it here or the appropriate topic forum.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/58833.aspxThu, 09 Sep 2010 17:12:32 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:58833DC-jeff0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/58833.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=58833<p>That sounds more like you want to query a data source using the dd list to pass the query parameter.&nbsp; It would return the contact list details for the boat which you would display in your contact fields.</p> <p>Jeff</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/58832.aspxThu, 09 Sep 2010 16:52:25 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:58832beauticat0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/58832.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=58832<p>Hi</p><p>I&#39;m very new to Infopath.&nbsp; I&#39;m creating logistics forms for our travel company and what I want to do is this.</p><p>I&#39;ve created drop down lists so that you can choose the Tour and then the boat that is being used for that tour.&nbsp; What I would like to be able to do is when you choose the name of the boat from the list the contact details for that boat appear below it.&nbsp; And then change when you choose a different boat and for there to be nothing when no boat is selected.&nbsp; If someone could tell me how to do this that would be great.&nbsp; I&#39;ve had a tentative look at the conditional formatting but it seems to only apply to the control and not to other areas of the form.&nbsp; I guess what I really want is to be able to have various areas of the form appear and disappear based on the boat name, is this possible?<br /></p><p>thanks</p><p>&nbsp;B. :-) <br /></p>