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Re: Drop down list of users in company

lanijade — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:16:30 GMT

This blog provides steps on how to use the contact selector to get other details such as manager, department, title etc http://www.myriadtech.com.au/blog/Alana/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=15

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:56:15 GMT

Know of any way to use a text field (i.e. SupervisorName) and use the entry to add this person to the workflow as an approver?

Currently only static entries are allowed through the wizard and I was trying to get said supervisor to approve from before final copy sent to HelpDesk.

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:52:43 GMT

The form template could not be browswer enabled, but it was successfully published for use with Microsoft Office InfoPath.

Once the form is opened, this is the detailed error message "An error occurred accessing a data source."

So I figure it had something to do with the trust issue when opening the data source. Any workarounds?

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Alec Pojidaev — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:49:42 GMT

Patrick Halstead:

Too bad that calling MOSS webservice requires full trust since that will complicate deployment of browser based forms slightly.

Oddly enough my form capable to call MOSS websevice having only domain trust level. Well... probably I have different version of MOSS server :)

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:16:06 GMT

What's the error you are seeing?

Thanks for the link. Too bad that calling MOSS webservice requires full trust since that will complicate deployment of browser based forms slightly.

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:30:44 GMT

I misread your blog. I did use your instructions at first but then ran into problems having multiple contact selectors changing other textboxes that pull data from the repeating tables. I started using this blog to give it a try

http://kwizcom.blogspot.com/2007/11/importing-data-from-ad-to-infopath-2007.html

What I've got now is a form that populates the users info for them. But this is causing an error. Would the 2nd data source be causing the conflict?

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Alec Pojidaev — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:09:50 GMT

It does work with browser enabled forms. But Control Selector isn't a good control to trigger the siquence of events. In my case I moved all rules from Control Selector to the submit button.

BTW where you noticed I can't publish a browser-enabled version?

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:50:37 GMT

Now that your blog makes perfect sense after I looked into the repeating table suggestion, I noticed that you can't publish a browser-enabled version. Have you figured out any workarounds?

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:20:15 GMT

So I messed with the idea of the repeating table from one of the other blogs and that has clarified everthing up. I am well on my way, next thing is to use the supervisor field to start the workflow. One thing at a time.

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Patrick Halstead — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:09:35 GMT

Hi Riehmc and welcome,

Why can't you use a filter or query just the current user's info? Our AD Web service works well in these scenarios and there is a free trial available. http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/ADWebService.aspx

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:23:42 GMT

So if there is a repeating table already constructed with AD info, the rest should work? I think we might have something like that already made.

It's sad to say that I am not a designer and our web dev section is lagging behind me as I learn-as-I-go. I appreciate all your help.

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Alec Pojidaev — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:17:42 GMT

Well, it would be nice to pull data right from AD. But pity enough there is no such thing as AD in InfoPath context. So poor InfoPath developers have no choice but utilize webservices wich usally return requested data as repeating XML structure (aka repeating table).

Of course if you dont have problems to code in C# there is such nice thing as DirectoryServices.dll

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:54:11 GMT

I have bound a text box all three of the other strings (DisplayName, AccountID, AccountType) and those call the data just fine. I don't follow the article since it's talking about pulling data from a repeating table. I want it to pull from AD?

I hope I don't sound too Infopath illiterate.............

Re: Drop down list of users in company

Alec Pojidaev — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:47:52 GMT

riehmc:

If I have a gpContactSelector with the 3 strings (DisplayName, AccountID, AccountType), can I add a string here called Email?

Yes you can. But Contact Selector wont populate it for you unless you going to use the workaround at the end of the article to populate repeating structures.

riehmc:

Can you help me go through step-by-step?

I don't think I could do it better then it already done in my blog

Re: Drop down list of users in company

riehmc — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:24:05 GMT

Still can't get it to work. If I have a gpContactSelector with the 3 strings (DisplayName, AccountID, AccountType), can I add a string here called Email?

Can you help me go through step-by-step?