Re: Returning a List Item Based on Dropdown Selection

ErnestoM — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:33:17 GMT

So you'll be submitting new items to a SharePoint list?

Here are some links to help you.

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/matt/archive/2006/02/02/Add-SharePoint-List-Items-with-InfoPath.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2007/03/26/submitting-to-a-sharepoint-list.aspx

You could also accomplish this via qRules.

Good luck!

Returning a List Item Based on Dropdown Selection

Whalensdad — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:11:21 GMT

I have a list where each item is unique. I want to have an IP 2010 form where the user could:

Select an item from a dropdown and that would display the associated list item to allow editing
Enter a new item for ones not in the list

This is what I have done so far:

Created a secondary connection to the same list as the MAIN (Connection 1 is Main, Connection 2 is Group Secondary). They both refer to the same list.
Tied a dropdown to the secondary connection Title and ID fields. Selecting the value in the dropdown gets the ID for the selected item.
I wanted to make sure I could get the value of the selection so for testing purposes I added a text box and used the Set Fields Value action with the formula: Title[ID = current()]. This successfully set the text box to the value selected in the drop down.

So now this is where I am stuck. I would like to allow the dropdown to return the list item selected or enter a new item for ones not entered.

Thanks,

Lee