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Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Lockdown — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:59:16 GMT

Not a problem! Glad to help.

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Erich — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:58:22 GMT

Worked like a charm,

Thanks for your help!

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Lockdown — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:38:11 GMT

It would just be the Xpath for that element: /my:myFields/my:numberOfSections.

Just copy this for your conditional expression: position() > /my:myFields/my:numberOfSections

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Erich — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:43:37 GMT

Lockdown,

I just have one problem, for 'position() > numberOfSections', what is the correct syntax for numberOfSections?

For example, if in javascript I would extract it as XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:numberOfSections") what would it look like in the condition?

Erich

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Lockdown — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:56:41 GMT

Also, you will need add the maximum number of sections allowed to the default values. If the max number is way too big then this may not be very effiecient.

Tools -> Default Values -> find your group and click on the dropdown on the right -> Add another Group below.

This should do the trick, let me know if this works for you or not.

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Lockdown — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:31:35 GMT

You can do something like this as a work around:

Conditional formating -> The expression -> "position() > numberOfSections" -> Hide This Section.

Use this form as a reference. They use a dropdown list to change some values, but i dont see why you couldn't do it with a text box.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2006/09/09/748003.aspx

Re: Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Jimmy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:14:08 GMT

Hello Erich,

InfoPath doesn't have any built-in functionality to do this, but it's a piece of cake with qRules. You can just concatenate the number into the Insert command:

concat('Insert /parent=parentXpath /child=childXpath /count=', numberOfSections)

Instances of a Repeating Section based on Field Value

Erich — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:01:53 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to create 'x' instances of a repeating section based on a number stored in a field?

ie. 5 in 'numberOfSections' results in 5 instances of Section

Erich