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Re: Clear manual entries from a view before submitting.

Patrick Halstead — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 19:46:03 GMT

Unfortunately, the data and the view are separate and there is no indication of which view a field is on so the answer is nope! :)

Re: Clear manual entries from a view before submitting.

TimMcCord — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:52:14 GMT

Thanks Patrick! This works great from your sample. I will be able to use this in the future. But I ended up doing is adding a button to switch back to main view but it opens a “new” view verifying if they leave this page, it will erase all data. If they say No, it switches back to the view 5. If they say yes, then I have each field in view 5clear out and switch to the main view. Is there a way for your rule in your example work in for a separate view (not just the current view)? Make sense?

If not, that is okay. My rule is published and working ok. But will definitely use your rule in future forms.

Thanks a lot!

Re: Clear manual entries from a view before submitting.

Patrick Halstead — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:38:33 GMT

I'm attaching a sample that has a rule with just one action which blanks them all.

You will have to save the source files and copy the rule from the manifest.xsf since it cannot be generated from the InfoPath Designer.

Note: this may not work in the browser - I wasn't able to verify.

Re: Clear manual entries from a view before submitting.

TimMcCord — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:40:05 GMT

I just setup rules to clear the data entry for each field. Not a big deal.

Clear manual entries from a view before submitting.

TimMcCord — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:10:11 GMT

I have a infopath form that submits to a sharepoint library. It has 5 different views. One of the views (let’s say View 5), pulls information from 3 other views and, many fields for the user to fill in manually, kind of like a report. I want this view to be a “Print Only” view and not saved when the user submits the form. I know how to create a button for printing. But need to figure a way that when they switch views back to one of the other 4 views to submit, view 5 clear changes (at least the fields that were manually entered). I know I can create rules to set each entry value to blank when the “switch View” button is clicked but I have 15 fields that need to be cleared. Any better way?

Thank you!