InfoPath Dev

hrmjs, The ".xsn" file is your entire solution - that is basically a cab file of your InfoPath template. An InfoPath template is a collection of files that together describe your solution. Within your .xsn are a number of other files including the .xsd file which is your xml schema information that Excel needs to map data from your ...

Ah ok. There are two ways to get the "schema" into Excel. Option 1) The easiest is to just open your form, save an empty data file. Then in Excel instead of mapping to an XSD you can also map to an XML file. It will interpret the XSD schema from the sample XML file you created from InfoPath. Option 2) To get the actual XSD from ...

You're welcome. We'd love to see the form. You can email it to me separately. I'll send you a note.

Hi Carlos, If you choose the ''show insert button and hint text'' you have to have text in there, it's not going to hide it. I believe this is by design. There may be another solution to your problem, views for example, that could handle this more gracefully.

Thank you for sharing your solution in such detail. For folks who want to copy paste the formulas above into the formula dialog just check the box to ''Edit XPath (advanced)''. What this does is show and allow you to enter the formula raw. Note that the my:txtStart will have to be the correct node in your form. :)

Is this a question about how XML Maps in Excel work? What do you mean by the appending button? Thanks.

InfoPath may not be the correct tool for your situation. Or there is something you're trying to do with the many tweaks that there might be a better option we could suggest. The idea behind having a single common template with multiple form data files running off that is that then all the data is consistent. So then you can gather that data ...