Newbie Questions

Re: Custom Navigation Section

Anson Hidajat — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:58:00 GMT

Template parts would be my suggestion but looks like you're ruled that out. You could just create it once for one view with all the rules, etc. Then copy and paste them across the rest of the views. It wouldn't work across forms, but at least its creating 12 buttons instead of 120.

For pictures, you can use resource files. For picture buttons thats easy because there is UI in the designer to allow you to pick the picture from the resource list. For regular pictures thats a little more difficult. You'd have to add the file as a resource and the export the source files to hand modify the xsl views to use the resource file. A little bit of a pain to do so. Would definitely recommend backing up your form before you try this approach.

Custom Navigation Section

dustbin111 — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:44:46 GMT

I have 10 views on my InfoPath form.

To navigate the views, I have 10 buttons lined up pretty on the left for navigation (+2 for printing to PDF and submitting to Sharepoint).

So by the time I create these 12 buttons on 10 pages, I've created 120 buttons! With the exact same rules/code! there has to be an easier way; I thought template parts would be the answer but it is not specific to a given form so would not switch my views.

How would I create a navigation section that shows the same buttons on every page?

AND what about pictures? I have a company logo on top of the navigation, times 10 views, = 10 images stored in the .xsn? There has to be a way I can boil this down to one image, one set of buttons that displays on all pages...

~Dustin.