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Re: Infopath forms - contact lookup from active directory

dakesun — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:08:40 GMT

hi warrtalon,

Please assist urgently. Thanks in advance.

I got a text box where i will be typing the 3 to 4 charaters and click search button to get the search results.

I am struggling with the rule.

Please tell me what rule i need to keep to working my button rule to work.

The problem is

The Infopath form is working perfectly fetching all the users in the active directory.

I got like this

Text box

Search button

Dropdown with all active directory users.

In the button i kept the following action in the rule..

1. Set a field's value as

field = datasource is AD_User_Get_Users(Secondary)

Queryfileds>InputProperties>Name

Field = Name

Value = concat(*,TextBoxField,*)

amd also added a query

Ad_User_Get_Users

so i added 2 actions

one is field value and second is query.

but when on running, i can see users in the dropdown on loading form, when type something in text box and click search , i see the dropdown users vanish. so it is not searching by the textbox characters.

Please assist me in configuring correct rule i need to use to get search results in the dropdown.

Thanks

Ravi

Re: Infopath forms - contact lookup from active directory

Patrick Halstead — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:24:38 GMT

Another alternative is to write code. It won't be as secure as using a Web Service (SharePoint's or Qdabra's) but you can do it. Search the forum for LDAP. There are many examples:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003654972516704994317%3A4j0mji2l1rq&ie=UTF-8&q=LDAP

Re: Infopath forms - contact lookup from active directory

warrtalon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:09:20 GMT

Why would there be a policy not to use SharePoint's built-in ability to expose user profile data to developers? InfoPath can consume and display all profile data for users without a line of code, so that is a very strange policy.

Your alternative is to use the Qdabra Active Directory Web Service, which will tie straight to AD instead of going to the MOSS profile database.

Infopath forms - contact lookup from active directory

krishna — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:40:37 GMT

HI All,

I am new bie to Infopath forms. I need to design a form where I can type a surname/full name on the text field and need to look for the match in the active directory. My company policy is not to ping the sharepoint server. So, I need to use the LDAP query for achieivng this kind of scenario and I have no idea how to do this. Please let me know.

Thanks

Krishna