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Re: How to Force a Button to Auto-Populate Another Field when Selected.

Zippy — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:49:40 GMT

DISREGARD MY COMMENTS BELOW. I ADDED THE () AFTER THE WORD TRUE AND IT WORKED. THANKS.

Thank you but perhaps I'm doing something wrong as I get a validation error when submitting the form with this rule (attached screen shot).

The "New Item" is currently set as a checkbox on the form and is the field I want to show True when the button is selected and runs the rule.

Re: How to Force a Button to Auto-Populate Another Field when Selected.

Jimmy — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 18:38:13 GMT

This should be very simple to do:

Add a new rule to the button. Call it "Set flag"
Add a Set a field's value action to the rule
For the Field entry, use the Select a field or group dialog to select the field you want to set
In the Value box, just type true

That should be it! Let us know if your situation is more involved than this.

How to Force a Button to Auto-Populate Another Field when Selected.

Zippy — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:45:49 GMT

I’m fairly new to InfoPath 2010 and this may not be the best way to approach this but this is what I would like to do.

I’m looking for a rule or some other method so that when a user selects a button it will autofill a separate checkbox field called New Item, or force a similar type of field to equal true.

Background: I have a created a request for training form that contains basic user contact info with three available view choices. Depending on the type of training required, the user selects one of three view buttons and fills in the remaining fields for the view selected. I want the ability to later sort through the database by these three views and need a way to auto-populate some other type of field for each of the three views with true/false when the button is selected. I could use a checkbox instead of a button but would rather have something more visual like a button.