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Re: Loading XML node based on menu choice?

maillme — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:42:25 GMT

thanks again, Neil

Re: Loading XML node based on menu choice?

ErnestoM — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:05:17 GMT

Yes, it is possible. Here are two tutorials I found:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/infopath/archive/2006/10/12/cascading-dropdowns-in-browser-forms.aspx

http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/david/archive/2007/08/23/implementing-cascading-dropdowns-in-forms-server.aspx

Re: Loading XML node based on menu choice?

maillme — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:49:24 GMT

Thanks Ernest, I should have mentioned, it is a browser form - is there a solution? Also, its not another drop down I want to populate, but data within my form...... thanks again, Neil

Re: Loading XML node based on menu choice?

ErnestoM — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:25:41 GMT

Hi,

What's you're looking for is called cascading dropdown. Here's one tutorial; there are other tutorials available online - just search for infopath cascading dropdowns on Google if you need more samples.

Good luck!

Loading XML node based on menu choice?

maillme — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:01:17 GMT

Hio there, XML / InfoPath is all new to me.....but; I have an XML file i created for a secondary data source, something like this: UK Joe Bloggs Great Britain Pound GBP USA James Bond US Dollar USD 2500 I was wanting advice on how to load a specific record in my XML based on a user choice in my form (which is a list also populated from this XML file). So, for example. User selects "USA" as country - then I'd like to display the elec_useage value from this node/record......... I'm not quite sure how to do this......any help (simplified) is greatly appreciated. thank you, Neil