InfoPath Dev

funny how you resolve your own problems after you post on a forum for help. I finally figured it out. I'll post my solution for other people should they run into my same problem: 'To populate a dropdown list in Infopath, you need to create a repeating group field which I named "Vendor" and a dropdownlist ...

I've made some progress, but it's still not working the way it should. I have it working so it now can show the last item of the array in the drop down list. Here is my code so far: Dim group1 As XPathNavigator = nav.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:Vendor", NamespaceManager) Dim field As ...

Hi guys, I'm running into an issue trying to programmatically populate a drop down list with data from an array. The reason I need to do this programmatically is because the original datasource brings back approximately 7000 rows of data - needless to say this slows down my infopath form greatly. My solution is to have the user type the ...

thank you!   this pointed me in the general direction.  I ended up passing a value into a ghost text box on the 2nd form, and on load, based on that value, it opened up the view I needed.  Thanks for your help.  Here was my solution for others with the same problem - I'm using VB.NET dim path as string = "insert ...

 Hi guys,   I've tried searching the forums but I couldn't find anything related to what I need.   For specific reasons, I need to change the view of a form from code.  Specifically, I want to open a different form with a specific view from another form.  I have the code running to open a different form through ...

thank you,   yes, it doesn't like the xsn format.  the xml format worked wonderfully.   cheers!

 hello everyone,   I'm running into an issue when I programmatically save an infopath form to a network folder.  The code works, but when I try to open the saved file, I get an error "InfoPath cannot create a new, blank form.  InfoPath cannot open the form.  To fix this problem, contact your system ...

 thanks for the info!

 Hi guys,   i'm just curious - is there a way to disable infopath's ability to limit textbox character limits when connected to a database?  Currently I'm only able to connect to a database if I manually create a connection using code, otherwise if I use a connection created using the wizard, I can't submit ...

 hi all, I'm running into an issue trying to programmatically attach the infopath form to an email using the MailMessage method.    I have been able to do it with the MailEnvelope method :  Dim sendEmail As MailEnvelope = Application.ActiveWindow.MailEnvelope   however, I'm unable to replicate this using the ...