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Re: InfoPath and Resources, an example with cascading dropdowns

Frederik Van Lierde — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:29:50 GMT

Patrick,,

The main idea of the post was to give an example of how to use Resource files, not Cascading Dropdowns.
Also the post was to help someone out (as stated in the atricle)

I will add your links you gave me about Cascading Dropdows to my post about Cascading Dropdowns, I think it will be a better place

Re: InfoPath and Resources, an example with cascading dropdowns

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:07:27 GMT

Thanks Frederik for the link,

InfoPathDev also has probably 20 blogs on this topic. Greg did a lot of blogs several years ago that deal with cascading dropdowns. Were you not able to find those?

For example:

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/06/Create-a-Cascading-List-from-a-Hierarchical-Data-Source.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/06/Create-a-Cascading-List-from-a-Flat-Data-Source.aspx

We even have blogs for implementing cascading dropdowns in Forms Server:

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/david/archive/2007/08/23/implementing-cascading-dropdowns-in-forms-server.aspx

These blogs are more detailed than yours. Please don't ignore search when posting here. We work hard to cover the bases and we are not here just to serve as a stomping ground to link to other people's blogs. Anyway, thanks for being part of the community.

InfoPath and Resources, an example with cascading dropdowns

Frederik Van Lierde — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:42:27 GMT

Sometimes you need cascading dropdown boxes with predefined values, ofcourse it would be great to add this to a database or link it to a webservice, but it is not always possible.

A solution to this is to use Resources in InfoPath

http://blueinfopath.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/infopath-resources-example-cascading-dropdowns/

Any other solutions to reach the same, without webservices or SharePoint Lists?