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Re: Red/yellow dashed line

svallab — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:53:12 GMT

Thanks you very much. It worked really well. I used the formatting to change to the background color. and it did persist after saving

Re: Red/yellow dashed line

Jimmy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:32:58 GMT

In your case, it doesn't sound like validation rules are the way to go.

I think you have two options

Use conditional formatting to change the background highlighting of the control (instead of using borders)
Make multiple versions of the control, some with dashed borders, and use conditional formatting to hide all but one accordingl

Re: Red/yellow dashed line

svallab — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:46:30 GMT

Hi,

Your Rules work, but I cannot save the form. Its complaining ofr Validation errors. I just need to show users data has changed when I sent it for review. That's why they want the red border. Please help

Re: Red/yellow dashed line

svallab — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:43:20 GMT

Thanks for response. Is there a way to change the color of the box. I want red for changes made. and yellow if they have comments on that fiels. the comments are tied to a custom pane.

Re: Red/yellow dashed line

leoffneym — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:38:31 GMT

Infopath doesn't do this normally, but you can make it do it by using validation.

See the example form for how it works.

Red/yellow dashed line

svallab — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:16:37 GMT

Is there a way to draw a red/yellow dashed line aroung a control to let other users know that the field has been modified?

svallab