Re: CREATING COMMENTS ON INFOPATH FORM

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:20 GMT

Hi:

You can simply create a repeating table on your form, with the number of columns you want to display. Users can click the 'insert' widget to add rows.

It sounds like you've just started using InfoPath? You might want to check out these MSDN labs for some basics -- while written for 2003 much of the information holds true for 2007.

You can add receive data connections to your form to return info from SharePoint or SQL. There are some limitations (which is why Qdabra created our DBXL webservice!), but in general, it is very simple to create a data connection to return all info from a table or a list, then filter the data once it is in the form. You can use your secondary data for things like drop down lists, so users have predefined values to select from.

Hope this helps!

CREATING COMMENTS ON INFOPATH FORM

QT2009 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:24:39 GMT

Hi, hope you can help me with that:

Comments creation
- every user should be able to insert comments.
- these comments should be displayed in a "Repeating Table"(INFOPATH control)
- best example -> guestbook (listed information should be username, current timestamp, comment)
==> how can I get information directly from Lists or SQL DB?
==> is CAML needed for this request or can I work directly with SQL statements?
==> how do I create a Sharepoint or SQL DB connection via INFOPATH?
==> is ODBC standard or are other solutions implemented in INFOPATH?
==> what should I put in Repeating Table to get these information visible?

Thanks in advance

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