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Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 06:14:35 GMT

Thank you again for the feedback so much. I really grateful and appreciate you! Now i've already made 6 pairs of such dropdowns as you've shown me :-)

Best regards, Paul.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 20:34:22 GMT

Oh - I missed this post & had taken a look at the data file - glad you figured out the encoding & it is working!

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:55:34 GMT

I see what you are saying - I get the same error trying to create a data connection to that file. It seems like it would having something to do with the encoding - but your original forms had XML files with Russian letters, and IP let you create data connections to those! I mainly use Notepad ++ to create XML files, by the way, with the XML plug in. But your original form had XML files that worked - how did you create those?

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:32:04 GMT

OH MY GOD, IT WORKS!!! Thank you, Hilary, so much! I have just added another encoding (windows-1251) and now it works! Best regards to you, i'm so happy :)

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 08:07:21 GMT

Thank you so much for help, i'm sure that's what i need! But i'm such a "lowskill" in .xml so i don't understand how to attach file to the fields. Look, could you tell me what did you write by yourself in that sample that you've sent to me. I've rewrite "data.xml" and just have made it with my parents, ids and names. But i think that i should do smth with Namespaces or maybe i should rewrite file "sampledata.xml" as well?

When i just create similar file "data.xml" with my values (I'll attach it) and try to add it in the dropdowns i see an error. Its said that there is an inadmissible symbol in XML-text. And the error is where the russian letter firstly appear. I think i miss smth, but i'm sure that the solution is very close already.

Thanks & Regards, Paul.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:19:04 GMT

Here is a simple sample that uses an XML file for both the parent and child dropdowns. You can go to the resource files and save the XML file out that is used so you can see the structure - basically, the first dropdown gets it data from the "parent" node, and is set to display unique items only. The second dropdown has a filter on it to only display items where the parent matches the item selected in the first dropdown. Hopefully this will help with your XML structure - I do see you have other XML files in the form for data sources - so you should be able to combine those into one and add a node to your repeating group for the parent data. However, if you have to have data stored in different fields based on the selected item in the first dropdown, you'll want to stick with your current approach.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:08:00 GMT

So - I see all three dropdowns are bound to different fields - is that intentional / necessary?

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:58:42 GMT

I haven't had a chance to look at your form yet, it is on my list for today.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 06:28:18 GMT

Speaking about button "Delete" i've just made this button on the row of my table and now it works, i deletes the row in which the button is. But i wanted to make i button on the top of the table that would delete highlighted row. But I can leave like this, that's a solution. But those drop-down lists are my main problem. I need only one item for the first list and one for the second, where visible values are different in the second list depending on the value of the first list. Could you help me with this?!

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 06:19:36 GMT

No, i use IP 2007. I try to use jscript for solving my tasks. I can't find how to delete one new row in a repeating table using button, i tried

XDocument.view.ExecuteAction("xCollection::remove", "группа11_684"), but it doesn't work. It's said that "bstrAction value is invalid for calling View.ExecuteAction for this highlighted fragment." I don't understand why it doesn't work, because the button that adds a new row in this repeating table looks like:

function CTRL1354_8::OnClick(eventObj)
{
XDocument.View.ExecuteAction("xCollection::insert", "группа11_684");
}

And i still don't know how to make those depending drop-down lists.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:07:51 GMT

As to your code question - what version of InfoPath are you using? If 2013, you need VS 2012 for writing managed code....

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:19:39 GMT

Here is my .xsn template. It's on russian as i mentioned before. Look, when you open it, you find on the top of the form such a drop-down list with "Выбор..." value. And there is an empty space under it in the next row. If you change the meaning of drop-down list, there will appear another drop-down list there on empty space. And when you change values of the first one, the values of the second will change too. You'll see it while you're not in a constructor mode. Then, as i said, if you go to constructor mode, you see'll see that there are just 3 hidden drop-down lists that appear according to the value of the first one. I used conditional formatting there. So, how can i do such a task using only one list, not 3? It should display different values according to the value of the first list. Thx!

P.S. If i'm still not annoying, can i ask another question. I think its very simple for you, but i can't find the answer. On the bottom of this template there is a repeating table. There is such a button as "Добавить этап". It creates a new row in the repeating table. I need another button near this one called "Delete" to delete the highlighted row of this repeating table. I've found the solutions on C# but i can reach only js handler, don't know how to get to C# tools in InfoPath.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:01:18 GMT

Sure - I'm not going to be around on Monday (US holiday) but I'll take a look early next week.

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Bible_black — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:58:44 GMT

Thank you very much, i'm moving in the another country now for three days, i'll get back to work on monday, i'll be so glad if you answer me on monday, when i attach my form. I think our time zones are really different, so check it please on monday ;) I'm a new one guy in infopath, so i don't know many features. I don't even know what is SharePoint list, i tryed to understand it today, but still. And i hope that it is not gonna be a problem that my form is on russian language, i'm from Belarus) Best regards!

Re: Depending drop-down lists. HELP please!

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:33:58 GMT

If the data is not going to change, may as well use an XML file for it - feel free to attach your template w/ your work around to a reply (under the options tab) and I'll take a look in the next day or so.