InfoPath Dev

Hi IP Devs,

I am working in IP 2010 and I have, surprisingly, created a pretty intensive form in IP and I am almost ready for deployment but I have one situation for which I am not sure how to resolve.

I have eight fields that need to be tested before the user can submit their form to SP.

I attempted to use validation on my submit control to disable the control if the conditions were not met; however, I am limited to 5 conditions using the rules management options.

Is there a way to validate all of the fields outside of the rules management tool? For a more detailed explanation, see below:

I have eight fields that need to be validated - all are drop down boxes (the only values are blank, yes, or no)

For fields 1 through 6, I need to make sure that they are not all marked no or blank before the user submits their form. Fields 7 and 8 come into play when another field on the form is a certain value. Let's say argument1 is that field. If argument1  = purple then 7 and 8 become relevant. At this point, I would need to make sure that all fields 1 through 8 are not marked with a no or blank.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

Cube

You are not limited to 5 conditions if you change the first dropdown to "The expression" and create your own XPath expression:

my:field1 = '' and my:field2 = '' and my:field3 = ''

So:

my:argument1 != 'purple' and (my:field1 = '' or my:field1 = 'no') and (my:field2 = '' or my:field2 = 'no') and (my:field3 = '' or my:field3 = 'no')

I've no doubt there is a more elegant XPath for this, but hopefully it gets the general idea across....

Worked like a charm!

 Thanks!

You bet - Greg Collins taught me that, and it was a huge revelation to me, first off, for the "more than 5 conditions", but now, if I'm uncertain of the XPath for something, I'll pretend like I'm creating a rule condition, then change the first drop down to "The expression" and let InfoPath teach me the right XPath.

The XPath on my form was really long because I have a lot of groups; so, I entered a calculated value control on the form and used the XPath expression builder to build my expression. From here, I changed the view to XPath (advanced) within the builder and subsequently copied and pasted the XPath to the expression box in the rules for my Submit control.