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Re: Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

zakaria.botros — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:24:10 GMT

oh my god, this is a masterpiece. Your answer Hilary Stoupa is solved my issue as well. I like the fire demonstrative example so much .

Re: Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 15 May 2015 15:14:26 GMT

Wonderful!

A common issue I see is rules set on the target field. But rules fire when a field changes, so if the rule to set txtC is ON txtC, as you realized, the rule was not going to fire. :)

Re: Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

jlmann — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:56:54 GMT

I got it resolved!

I added the action rule to chkA instead of txtC and then it worked.

Hilary thanks for your help. Your question sent me down the right path.

Take care,

Joe

Re: Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

jlmann — Fri, 15 May 2015 11:34:44 GMT

Thanks for responding. All rules mentioned above are set on field txtC.

Re: Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 14 May 2015 19:27:13 GMT

What field is the action rule set on?

Action Rule Help: Set field's value not working

jlmann — Thu, 14 May 2015 18:51:32 GMT

Hi All,

I have a checkbox (chkA) and three textboxes (txtB, txtC and txtD). I need to fill txtC with the value entered in txtB when chkA is checked, but doesn't work in preview or Sharepoint. I created the following action rule:

Condition: chkA = TRUE

Action: Set field txtC value to txtB.

Seems pretty straightforward to me, but it is not working.

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Notes:

I have 4 other rules on txtC. 2 are validation rules and 2 are formatting rules.

Validation Rule 1

Condition: chkA = TRUE

Screen Tip: Cannot be blank.

Validation Rule 2

Condition: txtC is not blank and txtD is not blank.

Screen Tip: txtC should be less than txtD.

Formatting Rule 1

Condtion: chkA = FALSE

Formatting: Hide txtC and disable txtC.

Formatting Rule 2

Condtion: chkA = TRUE

Formatting: Nothing (enables txtC).

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Please note all textboxes are Decimal data type. Also, using InfoPath 2010.

Could the rules be causing a conflict (possibly formatting rule 2)? If it is then I don't see why.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe