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Re: Set a field value without removing what is already there.

maxibarrios — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:45:08 GMT

Anson!

thanks for the interesting approach. i actually managed to do something like you told me.. ended up like this

concat(xdMath:Eval(xdMath:Eval(../../../my:Participants/pc:Person, 'concat(pc:DisplayName, "; ")'), ".."), "New Person Name")

it ended up adding the people i needed it to add so it does the job. but it seems kind of messy since if there were, for example, 2 people in the People picker. it will end up adding the 3rd person but multipling all by two. showing somethign like this.

person 1; person 2; New Person name
person 1; person 2; New Person Name

if there were 3 people at first.

person 1; person 2; person 3; New Person Name
person 1; person 2; person 3; New Person Name
person 1; person 2; person 3; New Person Name

dont know why but when i prepare the form to be sent of course it only adds them once. so the job is done im just trying to figure out how not to show those added names. (repeated)

thanks again for the help :)

Re: Set a field value without removing what is already there.

Anson Hidajat — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:21:56 GMT

Hi there,

I think what you are trying to do will be pretty difficult to do out of the box because of the way people picker schema works. Each person is stored in a separate instance of a repeating field. So if you want to add another person you would have to add another node to that repeating field which you cannot do in InfoPath without writing custom code.

I do have an idea you can try. If you can get the existing people into a semicolon delimited list (search Internet for double eval trick) and then concat the person you want to add to that string. Set that value to the first node of the people picker and that may resolve all of the names in that string to what you want. I haven't tried this myself, but might be worth a shot :)

Hope this helps!

Set a field value without removing what is already there.

maxibarrios — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:25:14 GMT

Hi Guys.

so here is my problem.

i have a form that has 2 fields (not only those but this are the importants)

One is a drop down list that gets the information from a list in sharepoint.

the other is a people picker.

what i need to do is, whenever I select something on the drop down list, example selection 1, to include example person 1 on the people picker BUT without removing the people i already added over there.

thanks in advance for your help!