Re: Populate a dropdown and a textbox based on values on 2 dropdown.

mrbroschat — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:07:23 GMT

1. Make a three-column list in SharePoint: Firstname, Lastname, Email; provide some values.
2. Create an InfoPath form with two dropdowns (ddFirstname, ddLastname) and a text field (txtEmail).
3. Create a Data Connection to that SharePoint list. I called mine dcEmailList. Include all three important fields.
4. In properties for the ddFirstname InfoPath field, get its value from the dcEmailList data connection (Firstname).
5. For ddLastname properties, choose Lastname from the dcEmailList data connection, but with that selected, choose to Filter Data.
6. Create a filter condition such that "Firstname is equal to ddFirstname." Notice that you choose the first value from the Secondary data source, and the second value (ddFirstname) from the Main data source. This is a conventional cascading drop-down.
7. For txtEmail, you will derive its value from the "Insert Field or Group..." button. Essentially, you will be saying "Give me the value of the Email field in the SharePoint list when the Firstname is [what was chosen for Firstname] and the Lastname is [what was chosen for Lastname]." You get the values for "what was chosen" by pointing to the corresponding field in the Main data source.

In this scheme, whenever you have chosen values for both Firstname and Lastname, you will automatically populate the text field with the corresponding Email value.

Populate a dropdown and a textbox based on values on 2 dropdown.

akosila — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:38:44 GMT

Here's the scenario, I have this 2 dropdowns, and 1 textbox

dropdowns are : FirstName, LastName

textbox is : Email

here's the content for the FirstName and LastName dropdown:

FirstName - TestFName LastName - User1

TestFName1 User2

TestFName User3

If I choose TestFName in the dropdown, the LastName dropdown will have User1 and User3 as choices. and after choosing LastName value, the Email textbox will be populated with it's corresponding Email Address

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Re: Populate a dropdown and a textbox based on values on 2 dropdown.

Populate a dropdown and a textbox based on values on 2 dropdown.