Newbie Questions

Re: Quick Formula Editing - Find and Replace

ashoke — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:25:35 GMT

Hello

I found the formulas in .xsl file. Global search and replace worked very well. Your help is much appreciated.

I tried to copy the expresion boxes from one file to another. It didn't transport the formulas inside the expression boxes. Now I'm doing it by different views of the form. And every view has got different .xsl file.

There are so much to explore in InfoPath. I'm having lots of fun in it.

Ash

Re: Quick Formula Editing - Find and Replace

Josee Sevigny — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:16:07 GMT

To my knowledge these formulas are not located in the XSF files.

Run a search within files using an enhanced text editor for a part of your formula and you should be able to find in which file.

Re: Quick Formula Editing - Find and Replace

ashoke — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:51:16 GMT

Hi, Thanks for your reply. In theory, it's possible by saving source files. But practically, there are many issues coming up to my form and cannot save time.

For me, it didn't work actually. After editing the source files (.xsf), I couldn't get back to the original form.

Don't know if there is any other easy way or not. But it's killing me for such a huge form. In fact, I was expecting a source file like HTML source code.

Thanks again for your quick suggestions.

Ash

Re: Quick Formula Editing - Find and Replace

Josee Sevigny — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:53:51 GMT

Hi,

I haven't tried it but off the top of my head I would think that you could export your template to source and do a global search/replace from the generated files...

Be sure to take a back up first ;-)

Quick Formula Editing - Find and Replace

ashoke — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:03:51 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I am working on a query form with several pages/views. Every page has got 960 formulas using expression box. One of the formulas is as follows:

sum(dfs:dataFields/d:top/d:transplants_NDD/@LungSingleChild[../../@PrgYear = xdXDocument:GetDOM("qYear")/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:qYear/@qYear + 8 and ../../@Program = 29])

I've inserted the formulas in one page then copied and pasted in other page to change the node's name only. For example, I want to change only LungSingle to Kidney. I still have to click and edit the every formula in the single line (non-expandable formula area).

Is there any quick way to edit the formulas by page/views e.g. find and replace?

Thanks,

Ash