Code

Re: Programmatically changing Dropdown values

Greg Collins — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:00:43 GMT

That works too! Good job!

Re: Programmatically changing Dropdown values

skrile — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:14:21 GMT

Thanks for the reply Greg. My problem here is that I have value pairs like (green/1, red/2, blue/3). After messing about with changing these values programmatically - one based on the other - I finally gave up and went a different route. Now, I have radio buttons (there were only three choices anyway) and put labels next to the buttons. The labels are bound to my translation data so it acts like the rest of my solution.

Re: Programmatically changing Dropdown values

Greg Collins — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:02:19 GMT

Make your drop-down be populated from a data source (rather than hard-coded values). Then your code will just remove all the nodes that are used as drop-down values, and replace them with new nodes. It's just XML DOM manipulation.

Programmatically changing Dropdown values

skrile — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:13:19 GMT

Well, in my quest for a fully translated InfoPath form, I've come upon another scenario that I need a little guidance with.

I have a dropdown on my form called <visit_type>. This drop down has Four static values in it (it's not wired to a database or Sharepoint list).

I have another drop down on my page that gives the user a choice in language (English, French, etc.).

Currently, I have code that when a user chooses a language, several labels on the form have their values updated (if you are interested, you can check the code out here).

So, what I would like to do is add a section to my setTranslations() function that would loop through <visit_type> or if necessary destroy and re-create the drop down with the desired tranlsations (using the tranString() function). Is this possible? If so, how?