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Re: File Attachment Secondary Data Source

Agni Jonnalagadda — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:36:51 GMT

Sorry for miscommunication above, for 2ds InfoPath does not allow file control.
This is how InfoPath File Control works, When you add a File Control to the UI, InfoPath will have a reference to this control in the Manifest.xsf. Here is how it maintains the ref:
<xsf:xmlToEdit name="field1_1" item="/my:myFields/my:field1">
<xsf:editWith component="xFileAttachment"></xsf:editWith>
</xsf:xmlToEdit>

One thing InfoPath doesnot allow is references to 2ds Elements in Manifest's "xmlToEdit" fields. So indirectly it is restricting FileAttachment to only main dataconnection.

Re: File Attachment Secondary Data Source

vt_asparagus — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:39:55 GMT

Ok, so you saying that when IP infers the schema from the data connection is assumes string. So all I need to do is change the data connection schema paramter back to base64...

Thanks.

Re: File Attachment Secondary Data Source

Agni Jonnalagadda — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:17:23 GMT

Hi,
When you take a dataconnection to an XML file, then InfoPath recognizes every thing as a string, even FileAttachment. So you need to change your schema so that the fields type is changed to Fileattachment.

Re: File Attachment Secondary Data Source

Stephanie Cantwell — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:22:38 GMT

The attachment control requires the following PI in the xml document file.
<?mso-infoPath-file-attachment-present?>
Have you tried adding this entry in your .xml?

File Attachment Secondary Data Source

vt_asparagus — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:36:52 GMT

Has anyone noticed that if you have you cannot bind an attachment control to element unless it is part of the main data source? I have tried several things, including some trickery to no avail.

Any suggestions...