Auto-Populate InfoPath Form Template Control ScreenTip from XML Schema Documentation

senecalakemonster — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:00:12 GMT

Greetings,

I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to auto-populate an InfoPath form template control (e.g., text box) ScreenTip from the documentation for the bound data field in the XML schema on which the template is based.

E.g., if I had the following in the XML schema document

<xsd:attribute name="weeklyHoursCapacity" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger" default="40">

<xsd:annotation>

<xsd:documentation>The number of hours a team member is available in a week.</xsd:documentation>

</xsd:annotation>

</xsd:attribute>

and I have a text box control in my form template for weeklyHoursCapacity, is there any way to make InfoPath automatically populate the text box's ScreenTip with "The number of hours a team member is available in a week."?

I'd like to leverage the existing documentation elements in my schema document to provide tips to my form users rather than duplicate the documentation elsewhere (e.g., custom task pane) and/or engage in additional manual work (e.g., enter ScreenTips by hand, as I did for the above example).

Thank you.

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Auto-Populate InfoPath Form Template Control ScreenTip from XML Schema Documentation