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Re: Look up values in the form's data source

Shanthi Reddy — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:16:10 GMT

Hello timcoffman,
I tried creating the same schema that you mentioned above and set the dropdown as you mentioned. The solution worked for me in preview. I had a repeating table for Items block and as i inserted new items, these new values were seen in the dropdown control.

Is there anything that I'm missing? The xpath for the selectable item is "/my:myFields/my:items/my:item" in the solution that I just created

Shanthi
InfoPathDev India

Re: Look up values in the form's data source

timcoffman — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:17:59 GMT

As far as I can tell, the problem is that I am using a data element as the source for a combo box which is bound to an element which is _contained_in_ the hierarchy of the source element.

e.g.:
schema:
<items>
<item>
<name/>
<item-id/>
<references>
<reference-id/>
<reference-id/>
</references>
</item>
</items>

combobox bound to <reference-id>
combobox data source specified as <item>
using display: <name>
using value: <item-id>
xpath for selectable <item>s should be: "/items/item"
actual xpath determined by InfoPath: "../../item"

Re: Look up values in the form's data source

Greg Collins — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:52:02 GMT

I believe that you cannot have a filter ([]) directly after a self (.) or parent (..) reference.

You might try updating the XPath to something like the following:

<xsl:if test="not(../..node()[@my:UniqueID=$val] or $val='')">

Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]
InfoPathDev

Re: Look up values in the form's data source

Shanthi Reddy — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:50:25 GMT

Can you give us the xml file that is being used in the solution and which field you are trying to bind to the dropdown?

Shanthi
InfoPathDev India

Look up values in the form's data source

timcoffman — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:07:45 GMT

I am trying to use the "Look up values in the form's data source" feature of a Drop-Down List, but I always get the following error:

InfoPath cannot create a new, blank form.
The form template is not valid.

InfoPath cannot open the following view: View 1
The following view file is not valid: view1.xsl
The .xsl file is not valid XSL.
Expected token ')' found '['.

not(../..-->[<--@my:UniqueID=$val] or $val='')

The referenced XSL is:
<xsl:variable name="val" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="not(../..[@my:UniqueID=$val] or $val='')">