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Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

ErSandeep — Sat, 04 May 2013 07:34:55 GMT

I am facing same problem.Can you please give any example how do i implement on load to fill dropdownlist on edit mode.

Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:28:26 GMT

Well, here is the thing with rules on fields -- they only fire when the field changes. When your user opens a filled out form, none of the rules you have set on your first drop down would run unless he or she changes the value that is selected. That's why you need to run your query again when opening existing XML. Remember, form templates only store data in the main data source -- anything from a secondary data source has to be queried for.

Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

dvnandover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:13:38 GMT

I found this post: http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/infopath-basics-how-to-populate-form-when-opened-loaded.htm
so i added some rules to to Open and Save and it worked. I am not convinced as why i need to do that since i have rules in those dropdown list boxes already.

Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

dvnandover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:49:58 GMT

Can you be more specific on "loading rule"? Is it a specific rule on Load. I had a rule already on DD1 which contains:
Condition: DD1 is not blank
Action1: Clear existing content of DD2
Action2: set the value of DD1
Action3: Query using a data connection:GetValueForDD2 using DD1 value set in Action2.

Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

Greg Collins — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:30:38 GMT

DD1 = your first drop-down / DD2 = your second drop-down

What you have going on is that the DD1 values query on load. The DD2 values query when DD1 changes (since the list is filtered). The value for DD1 does not change on load, and thus the DD2 values are not queried.

The fix is to add a loading rule which queries the DD2 values if the selection in DD1 is not blank.

Re: dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

dvnandover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:23:42 GMT

No one has any idea? Experts?

dropdown list box problem in infopath form when the form is in edit mode

dvnandover — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:09:45 GMT

I have a 2 cascading dropdown list boxes where data were populated by webservices. When the form first filled in by the user the drop down behave correctly. But when the user click on the existing form the second dropdown list box
did not populated the data correctly - The values should have been the Field_Description instead of Field_ID. Each of my dropdown box defined the Field_ID as Value and Field_Description as DisplayName. How do i rectify the problem?
Thank you in advance.