Newbie Questions

Re: How to get the value of a text field that is unknown at design time

sheilaA — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:07:37 GMT

Jimmy:
It should be possible to pull this off with a single rule action and no conditions. As you've discovered, concat("../my:comm_1text/my:comm_", .) won't work because that just produces the text value ../my:comm_1text/my:comm_X.
How about something like this:
../my:comm1_text/*[local-name() = concat('comm_', current())]

Using a single rule is exactly what I am looking for. This looks promising, I'll give it a try.

Re: How to get the value of a text field that is unknown at design time

Jimmy — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:15:01 GMT

It should be possible to pull this off with a single rule action and no conditions. As you've discovered, concat("../my:comm_1text/my:comm_", .) won't work because that just produces the text value ../my:comm_1text/my:comm_X.

How about something like this:

../my:comm1_text/*[local-name() = concat('comm_', current())]

Re: How to get the value of a text field that is unknown at design time

Gennady Vanin (Геннадий Ванин, Новосибирск) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:12:50 GMT

Created a new Infopath 2010 form.

Inserted option button (with default "Number of options buttons to insert;" 3) , named it "Options"

In addition to textbox FieldA, inserted 3 textboxes, named them:

comm_1
comm_2
comm_3

This is to repeat for each option:

With focus on Options, on ribbon "Add rule" (later "Manage rules")
In "Rules" pane, New --> Action
Condition: Options = 1 (in last drop-down-lis choose "Type a number..." )
Rule type: Action

Run these actions" --> Add --> in opened "Rule Details" dialog:

Action: --> Set a field's value
Field --> FieldA
Pressed fx against "Value:" textbox --> "Insert Field or Group..." --> comm_1

Add new rule for "Options" by "This is to repeat for each option: " procedure with corresponding minor adjustments of digit :

With focus on Options, on ribbon "Add rule" (later "Manage rules")
In "Rules" pane, New --> Action
Condition: Options = 2 (in last drop-down-lis choose "Type a number..." )
Rule type: Action

Run these actions" --> Add --> in opened "Rule Details" dialog:

Action: --> Set a field's value

Field --> FieldA

Pressed fx against "Value:" textbox --> "Insert Field or Group..." --> comm_2

Add a new rule by the same procedure "This is to repeat for each option: " with digit, 3, then 4, then n....

Publish, Run and enjoy

How to get the value of a text field that is unknown at design time

sheilaA — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:31:32 GMT

I am trying to write a rule that sets the value of a field with another field's value that is not known at design time.

Depending on which option is selected (1,2,...) I want to select the value from fields: comm_1, comm_2, comm_3,....., comm_n and put it into Field A

So I have 3 fields involved in this rule.

#1 The option group field that the user will select <-- Known (this is the field the rule is set on)

#2 The field that will get the value <-- Known

#3 The field that has the value I need to set #2 above <-- Unknown at design time

I tried this and it does not work:

concat("../my:comm_1text/my:comm_", .)

When I select option 2, I get this value in Field A:

../my:comm_1text/my:comm_2 <=== this is the name of the field that has the value.

Any suggestions?