InfoPath Dev

At this point I will need you to provide more information about the forms and your intentions. I'll need this in order to understand what you are attempting to do and what is actually happening. Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]

When you used the word ''template'' did you mean that? Or did you mean the live form? There is no communication between templates (i.e. InfoPath Designer), only between forms (i.e. InfoPath Editor). As for the editor, you have an XDocuments collection off of the Application object. You can get to all open forms and pass data between them. If you ...

XML Spy is definitely useful. They have a free Home Edition, but it lacks the XPath testing capabilities of their $500 Professional version. There are other XPath testers available (try Download.com). You had a learning experience. It is likely you will pay much more attention to whether you are accessing an element or an attribute now. You may ...

Hmm, i have a small problem with this. Its telling me. ''An item with the following index deos not exist in the collection:Main Connection'' Main connection is the data connection that i need extended. This looks to be a very simple procedure. Because it looks like you create the connection thats to be changed and then chenge it , then submit ...

I got one of my XML buddies to help me. Turns out I should probably invest in XMLSpy (or is there something free out there that will work like XMLSpy??) because I didn't have the XPath correct. The correct way to get the value ended up being: queryValueManager.text = objwsUser.DOM.selectSingleNode(''//EMPLOYEE/@REPORTING_MGR_EMPLID'').text so ...

I am working with the rules method, but am only getting the first parent item and child item even though they are in a repeating section. Why does the form not retrieve all of the parent items instead of just the first one?

Hi All, Is it possible to pass parameters from one infopath template to another via manged code, c#? In my scenario, I am trying to pass two fields from template1 to template2. The two values passed will be used to populate into two separate text boxes in template 2. All help is deeply appreciated. Many thanks in advance!

It sounds like what you need is to use XDocument.GetDOM(''NameOfWebServiceDOM'').selectSingleNode(''//REPORTING_MGR_EMPLID''); or something to that effect. GetDOM() is used to get a reference to a non-main DOM. Does this help? Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]

Without scripting you'll need to use the Open Rules. But this can be tedious if there are numerous fields. The best thing to do is to have the main data source (or at least a subsection of it) identical to the schema of the secondary data source. Then you can use script to just do a clone of the secondary data source, and then do a replaceChild ...