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Re: Drop-down box values based on repeating field

erundz — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:09:26 GMT

Ah, got it! Thanks for your help!

Re: Drop-down box values based on repeating field

Jimmy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:29:00 GMT

The dropdown box you're describing could be bound to practically anywhere and work the way you want it to, as long as you bind it to a non-repeating field. Since it doesn't sound like the selected value needs to be persisted from one submit to the next, creating a field in a secondary data source to bind it to would be the more natural choice, but using a field in the main data source would be simpler, so perhaps you should try that first, and consider moving it out to a secondary source as a next step.

In order to have the first available value selected by default, just add an additional rule action to whatever rule set is performing the query, like this:

Action: Set [Field bound to the DDL] = [Field used for the Values in the DDL]

Drop-down box values based on repeating field

erundz — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:09:01 GMT

Hi everybody, I have only been learning Infopath for a couple weeks now and I have what I hope is a newbie question that somebody can understand and explain to me easily.

Say I have the groups Customer and Doctor (each customer has one or many doctors). I want a drop-down box that will display the first doctor in the list after the query is run, but I want the list to display all of the other doctors so the user can select a different doctor to display on the form (for printing). I have read some other posts but I since all I want to do is display the data (not submit), what I am looking for might work differently. I am guessing it needs to be a secondary data source and bound to the doctors name attribute, but what else do I need to consider? Does anybody have any advice for me to make this work the way I've described?

Thanks!