Newbie Questions

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:54:53 GMT

Oh, how annoying, I just tried this on my IP 2007 VM, and had the same results. Try this one - I added another field to use to reset the Work Log field.

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:42:54 GMT

Yea I am working from InfoPath Designer 2007. and yes the work log field......any other ideas?

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:01:55 GMT

Oh how weird. And this is in InfoPath Filler? Screenshot of the rules on the Work Log field?

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:57:27 GMT

No it is not :-( (I am sad). It still keeps the data. Here is a screen shot of your form in use on my system.

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:41:49 GMT

In the sample attached to my post, if I preview it and type in the work log field and tab out, the text gets added to the log field and the work log field is cleared - is the sample form not working that way for you?

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:37:38 GMT

I attached of the screen shot WorkLog1 which is what I am actualyl trying to accomplish. If I use the sample you gave me (about the same I have) it does nto clear the filed..... :-(

Thank you :-)

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:45:29 GMT

Your screenshots aren't displaying for me - you can attach them under the Options tab if you like. I think what you may be missing is a rule to clear the original field.... in my sample, my rules set the field to blank after setting the log (and my field to set the log only runs if the field is not blank to begin with).

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:35:54 GMT

concat(., " by ", userName())

concat(@WorkLogCache, @crlf, now(), ";", ., ";", userName(), ";", "Status", ";", RequestStatus)

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:17:20 GMT

What are your current rules?

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:43:19 GMT

Thank you for your assistance. I have the concat formula working beautifully, but still can not get the initial field to clear once the data is moved to the "Work Log" text field.

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Hilary Stoupa — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:33:02 GMT

Actually, it looks like in that sample, you'll only ever have the last entry. I modified this a just a smidge. :-)

Re: Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:28:38 GMT

Thank you! My only problem is that it overwrites the last value that is logged....am I doing something incorrectly? I added the rules as you stated.

Thank you again for your assistance.

Re: Clear field used for "log"

ErnestoM — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:27:41 GMT

I don't believe you need code to achieve this. I'm attaching a sample form that you can download, open in design mode (to look at the rules) and preview. Hopefully this helps. Good luck!

Clear field used for "log"

Toni Green — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:26:26 GMT

Happy Day Everyone!

I am trying to find a solution to clear a test field once I hit the tab button. Let me explain a bit more in detail. I have created a "Work Log" text field that the user will input there daily activities, etc. When they hit the "tab" button the data concats with date, time, status, etc into a read only field called "Log View".

What I am trying to do it to clear the field "work Log" once they hit tab.

I am new to the coding aspect so any detailed instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Have a wonderful day and thank you in advance!!!!