Re: Field Linking

Greg Collins — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:02:49 GMT

You can use rules to fill in the values of the other fields when the drop-down list changes. But the values used to fill in the fields would be filtered based on the selection of the drop-down list.

For example: Let's say your data source looked like this:
<People>
<Person name="Mary" id="12345"/>
<Person name="John" id="67890"/>
</People>

Your drop-down list is populated with Person/@name.

Now, if you select "Mary" in the drop-down list, the rule would fill in the ID field with Person[@name="Mary"]/@id -- meaning, it would filter for a Person with a @name that matches field one ("Mary") and then use the @id of that Person to populate field two.

Does that make sense?

Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]

Field Linking

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:04:58 GMT

I have field one (single layer drop down that must be selected and cannot be edited ) and field two (whatever it needs to be to bring up automatic data depending on choice for field two)

basically i choose one person and in the form my choice is shown as well as an id number in another field based on my choice.

problem is i do not know what to choose for the second field or how to link the two.....please help

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