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Hi I am new to inforpath and have been working away at it for a couple of weeks now, I am down to the last section where I have a repeating table with checkboxes that will hide/show a seperate form, the issue I have is that while I can use condtional formatting etc to hide/show this seperate section the second I repeat the checkboxes it negates the first line in the the table. I have tried to use Master/detail to no avail and now have looked to do this by conditional formatting via the expression as follows

"Not(/my:myfields/my:method_statement/my:steps/my:step/my:associated_Harzards[Fire1 = 'true']"

 However I can not seem to get it to work, even if I check the check box on the initial table it still does not work, I am at a loss......

Hi B1rds,

You need to use the current() function to do this and not an absolute xpath. Search this forum for "xpath current" to find examples.

Thanks Patrick, will do that and appreicate your help

Mike

Patrick Halstead:

Hi B1rds,

You need to use the current() function to do this and not an absolute xpath. Search this forum for "xpath current" to find examples.

Hi Patrick Looked into the Current() function, the problem I face is that this will only look up the current row, I want to be able to look back at all rows and pick up if the node was selected in any row, then if it is displayed in any one or 2 rows it will display the hidden section. This was what I was trying to do with the original expression that it would refer back to all entries for that node.

I have come up with a work around where if the node is selected it adds +1 to a hidden text box and then I use this for hide/show the section. I know this is rough and ready but it works, but I am still interested in getting a more robust solution, so any other help is appreciated. 

Check-box field name: field3
Table/Group name: tabl1

Conditional formatting on the section to hide (when no check-boxes are checked.)

count(my:table1/my:field3[. = "true"]) = 0

Whenever a check box is ticked, this logic/formula will return false and section will appear.

Thanks Skarn, that worked a treat much easier solution than my earlier attempt