Newbie Questions

Re: Pre Populating a field based on data in a drop down list

Rob68 — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:12:36 GMT

Hi Hilary,

Thats great - works a treat. Many thanks for your assistance - I would have never worked that out!!

Regards,

Rob

Re: Pre Populating a field based on data in a drop down list

Hilary Stoupa — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:05:11 GMT

Hi - you've made an error that I used to make all the time! :-)

Rules fire when a field changes. So you put the rules on field1 in your sample, not on field2.

Another issue - XML / XPath is case sensitive. Your conditions are using proper case, your actual values are all lower case.

I've attached the changed sample - save the file locally, then right click and select design to open in design mode. From there you can preview.

Re: Pre Populating a field based on data in a drop down list

Rob68 — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:10:56 GMT

Hi Patrick, Many thanks for the reply. Please see attached a sample of the fields I have set up, complete with rules.

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Rob

Re: Pre Populating a field based on data in a drop down list

Patrick Halstead — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:23:41 GMT

Hi Rob,

Well, simple rules should suffice. Do you have conditions set correctly? Maybe you can attach your form (or a sample) and we can have a quick peek and post back.

Thanks,

Pre Populating a field based on data in a drop down list

Rob68 — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:49:30 GMT

Hi,I'm new to Infopath, and am trying to write a simple form for undertaking site audits. Apologies if the following question has been answered before, but if it has been I could not find it.

I'm using Infopath 2003 and on one part of the form I have inserted a drop down list that allows a user to select the grade of a site (i.e. Grade 1, 2, 3 or 4). What I'm trying to do is add a field in a later part of the form that populates based on the data in this first drop down list, i.e.:

Selecting "Grade 1" in the Drop Down will pre fill the other field with "10 hours per week"

Selecting "Grade 2" will pre fill with "2 hours per week"

etc.

I have tried using Rules but to no avail, and any information to assist would be gratfeully appreciated.

Many thanks,

Rob