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Re: Populating a repeating table with an external data source that has other controls in the columns?

wett68 — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:55:33 GMT

I was using code to grab the values from a sharepoint list to populate the repeating tables, and actually what solved my problem was setting the values to each item to "" - so writer.WriteElementString("TaskName", myNameSpace); would bomb where writer.WriteElementString("TaskName", myNameSpace, ""); worked

Re: Populating a repeating table with an external data source that has other controls in the columns?

suehernandez — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:21:46 GMT

A couple of questions

Are your controls in a Repeating section, or all by themselves in the form?
Have you tried connecting the secondary connection to a simple dropdown? Does it work?

Based on the error message, it seems as if it's a problem with the data source, not the control. Check out this article for what MAY be related - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982247. They're saying something like you have a list that you're using, that has required fields, and the required fields are not filled in with data.

[EDIT] - I reread your message and you are using code to populate the control? I did a search on "Schema validation found non-data type errors" and found a lot of links, like the one above, that seem to indicate something about a "nil" field not being filled it.

http://sharenotes.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/infopath-forms-code-error-schema-validation-found-non-data-type-errors/

Populating a repeating table with an external data source that has other controls in the columns?

wett68 — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:15:49 GMT

This is the control I want to populate - http://i.imgur.com/SWUvW.png . I'm trying to populate the field under "Work Checklist" with values from a SharePoint list while leaving the other columns with those blank controls to allow for input. Here is the code I have - http://pastebin.com/UK8F6Ey5. I am getting the error "Schema validation found non-data type errors." I checked to make sure everything was in the correct order, not sure what I am doing wrong here. Any help would be appreciated.