Re: Changing a Drop-Down List box's Entries, value and display name values using code

Greg Collins — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:28:26 GMT

You cannot do what you are trying to do. You will need to update your XML to something like the following:

<my:Choices>
    <my:Choice name="Fruits">
        <my:Name>Apple</my:Name>
        <my:Name>Peach</my:Name>
        <my:Name>Pear</my:Name>
    </my:Choice>
    <my:Choice name="Veggies">
        <my:Name>Carrot</my:Name>
        <my:Name>Pea</my:Name>
    </my:Choice>
</my:Choices>

With this structure, you can now "filter" your choices in the second list based on the @name attribute of the my:Choice element. You can now also use the @name attribute to populate your first list.

InfoPath just doesn't give you enough flexibility to dynamically change the XPath (i.e. /my:Fruits/my:Fruit vs. /my:Veggies/my:Veggie) on the fly.

Changing a Drop-Down List box's Entries, value and display name values using code

PhDUltra — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:06:02 GMT

With a drop-down list box which allows the user to select either fruit or veggies, I would like to change the the entries value for a second drop down list to point to the correct group in the following xml file:

<my:Choices>
<my:Fruits>
  <my:Fruit>
   <my:Name>Apple</my:Name>
   <my:Name>Peach</my:Name>
   <my:Name>Pear</my:Name>
  </my:Fruit>
</my:Fruits>
<my:Veggies>
  <my:Veggie>
   <my:Name>Carrot</my:Name>
   <my:Name>Pea</my:Name>
  </my:Veggie>
</my:Veggies>
</my:Choices>

This a simple example of what I am trying to accomplish but it gets my point across. I know that I can actually change the xml file to a fruit.xml and veggies.xml and change the data source but this is not an option as I do not have control over the xml file with the data I need.

Thanks for any help!

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Changing a Drop-Down List box's Entries, value and display name values using code