Controls

Re: changing the button background to a picture

alvarohv — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:50:20 GMT

Why images buttons does not work in IPFS forms??

Re: changing the button background to a picture

funnyfenny@hotmail.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:36:20 GMT

Yes, I did.
I published my form to SharePoint site.

According to Madhuri, this image button will not works at SharePoint InfoPath Form Service.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

cywan — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:45:56 GMT

Hi funnyfenny,

did u change to this :

style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BACKGROUND-POSITION: left top; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT-SIZE: x-small; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(yourimage.); BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 74px; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; HEIGHT: 23p">

May i know where did you publish your form? Have your try to publish your form in web browser?

Regards cywan

Re: changing the button background to a picture

funnyfenny@hotmail.com — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:57:09 GMT

Hi, if you really need an image on your button, you may try this.

Insert the button image on your form, not add the image to Tool > Resource files.
Modify view1.xsl to overlap the button on top of the image by setting the css style of the button/image.
Set the button border to none.
Set the button backgound-color to transparent.
MUST set many ' ' (not ' ') to the button value attribute (if you leave it empty, then this button is not clickable);
Save the changes, open manifest.xsf and preview the form, you should see your image and you can click on it.
Publish your form.
PROBLEM: the button is still displayed next to the image, even though I've set it to overlap on top of the image :( nothing happen if I click on the image, but the form is submitted if I click on the space next to the image :(

Please let me know if you have to solution for my problem.

Thanks.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

cywan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:23:37 GMT

Hi,

This is where i have added the image into the tag for the button background in the view.xsl :

It still not show on the Sharepoint after deploy. If button image background not work in InfoPath then is there a way to make it show in web-browser form?

Thanks.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

madhuri — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:37:33 GMT

Image buttons will not work for IPFS forms.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

Elena — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:35:06 GMT

Hi!

See the previous post: "We can do in a same way, add the background image url for <table>tag of repeating table in view.xsl file."

This is the only way i know.

Elena

Re: changing the button background to a picture

cywan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:04:28 GMT

Hi,

I able to change the background image button but when i publish to Sharepoint i cant see the image and when i open the form in design mode, i able to see the image.

I have created a picture library in Sharepoint to store the images and thought it well help for the form to display the image but it still the same on the missing image.

May i know what is wrong here and please help?

Thanks.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

madhuri — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:33:53 GMT

We can do in a same way,add the background image url for <table>tag of repeating table in view.xsl file.

Re: changing the button background to a picture

TechMan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:21:35 GMT

I did, but thats a picture on a button, I want a picture in a table so I can lay controls over the top of an image to make them look integrated into thte image, so a different requirement.

Thanks though

Re: changing the button background to a picture

Jimmy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:46:14 GMT

Did you follow the link in Elena's post to Greg's blog?

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/06/08/Create-a-Picture-Button.aspx

Re: changing the button background to a picture

TechMan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:01:08 GMT

You mentioned that you can set a picture as a background in a table in InfoPath, I can;t see how to do it and Googling the questioned let me to your post. Any direction appreciated

Re: changing the button background to a picture

Elena — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:57:49 GMT

Hey, is there anybody?

Re: changing the button background to a picture

Elena — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:53:06 GMT

Hi,

I have changed the button background on my browser-enabled form to a picture as written here http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/06/08/Create-a-Picture-Button.aspx

And it works. But after publishing a form to SharePoint site, pictures are disappeared.

Also, i have added pictures with prompts to the form in the following way - added such strings to the sourse code of form:

Pictures are present, but with no prompts after publishing.

Please, suggest how to do this things in browser-enabled forms!!!!!!!

Re: changing the button background to a picture

Shiraz Cupala — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:00:30 GMT

Just a friendly reminder that anytime you hand author the XSL you risk incompatibility with InfoPath. The designer could blow away your changes or future clients won't even be able to open the form.

The way we workaround this to select the button and choose the WebDings or other such dingbat font and then set the button label to the appropriate character to display the symbol we want. You can use the Windows Charater Map (under Program Files, Accessories, System Tools) to quickly find a picture that works.