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Re: how can I hide repeating bulleted list programmatically when list is blank

rZ3A8zj8neCW3K — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:45:03 GMT

This might work for you, it's some code I have to empty a repeating section, which should be similar:

private void clearRepeatingGroup()
        {
            //The following block of code empties the repeating section when the form that is chosen changes
            bool continueDeleteNodes = true;
            while (continueDeleteNodes)
            {
                try
                {
                    this.getNode(CODED_REPEATING_SECTION_XPATH + "[1]").DeleteSelf();
                }
                catch (Exception)
                {
                    continueDeleteNodes = false;
                }
            }
        }

the CODED_REPEATING_SECTION_XPATH is just a hardcoded string, it can be any XPath (e.g. /my:myFields/my:data/my:myRepeatingBulletedList)

Re: how can I hide repeating bulleted list programmatically when list is blank

Potemkine — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:30:37 GMT

Hi Doreen, you can replace your repeattind bulleted by a repeating table and use conditionnal formatting to hide the blank field.

how can I hide repeating bulleted list programmatically when list is blank

Doreen — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:39:35 GMT

Is there a way to hide a repeating bulleted list item in InfoPath 2007 form with C#, when the list item is blank? My form has several sections with repeating bulleted lists but not every bullet item is populated. The problem occurs when the form is previewed or printed, if a particular repeating bulleted list is not used (populated with text) then the line item (bullet) shows with the empty list. My expectation is to only have the bullet show if the list contains some text. If nothing is typed in, then I want to hide that bullet.

I can only see a way to hide a repeating list on the condition that another control contains some data...but I want the control to hide if its empty. Built in rules/condidtions don't seem to allow that.