InfoPath Dev

I am using Infopath to bring together several xml documents. Some of these documents are made from InfoPath and others are auto-generated xml documents from a reporting system. All of these subdocuments are not complete (that is not all of the element are filled in) and I am using InfoPath to insert them into the master xml document and fill in the remaining data.

Speciffically what I need is to have the data in the secondary data source auto populate the main data source. Is there any way to map elements from data sources?

Hope that was clear enough.

Thanks,

You will need to write code to do what you are talking about. Well, you might be able to use Rules too--depending on the number of fields, though, Rules could become unwieldy. Code is probably better. Then you just do the mapping in your code (or rules).

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Originally posted by Greg Collins

You will need to write code to do what you are talking about. Well, you might be able to use Rules too--depending on the number of fields, though, Rules could become unwieldy. Code is probably better. Then you just do the mapping in your code (or rules).

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Thanks . . . I was afraid of that. I was hoping that there was a data source wizard that would connect the dots so to speak.

No - nothing like that yet. It shouldn't be too bad though.

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Originally posted by Greg Collins

No - nothing like that yet. It shouldn't be too bad though.

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Actually, I thought of something. I made a form with the schema of one of the sub-xml files as the main data source. I then tried to open up the xml file in infopath but I get an error on load to the effect that a template can not be found. to associate the xml file do I have to add processing instructions?

Yes, the easiest way to do this is to open your template, save out a blank form .xml file, then open that .xml file in a text editor, copy all the PIs, etc, from it, and paste them in place in your .xml file you want to open.