InfoPath Dev

When creating a purchase order you need to gather the user's billing information as well as their shipping information. The user might want their order shipped to their billing address, in which case their shipping address is the same as their billing address. At other times they might want their order shipped elsewhere, as in the case of ...

When using the text highlighter on the contents of a rich text field, or on the contents of a view in the designer, InfoPath insert a font element around the text being highlighted, setting the background color to the selected highlight color. The following code block shows the XHTML of two paragraphs in a rich text field. The first paragraph has ...

You might have a button in your form—such as a submit button—that you want to prevent the user from being able to click until all required form fields are filled in. This can be done using conditional formatting. The complexity of the conditional formatting depends on your form. In this task we will create a simple form with a submit ...

The OnValidate event fires for each field in your main DOM before the OnLoad event is fired. This allows you to write validation code to add custom errors to the Errors collection for invalid fields before the user ever sees the view. This might be necessary when you are unsure of the source of the XML and for numerous other reasons. Although very ...

If you design your form to strictly layout over a background picture, you will find that when you print or use print preview your form no longer aligns with the background picture. Using a grid background picture, Figure 1 shows the extent of the layout variation between the editing and printing. Figure 1. Forms align to a background ...

When you bind an Expression Box to a Rich Text field you might be surprised to find that all of the formatting and rich content are gone, and that you are left with a single-line string of plain text. Getting the rich content to display requires only a small manual modification to the view .xsl file. In this task we will create an Expression Box ...

The XPath axis, preceding-sibling, can be a bit confusing to use. It doesn't work the way one would expect at all. In fact, it is quite backward from what one would expect. To me it made sense that if I wanted the sibling just before where I was currently at I would use an XPath like this:preceding-sibling::NodeName[last()]That made sense to ...

You might encounter a situation where a button in your view appears to have a bold border, as shown in Figure 1. Traditionally in the Microsoft Windows operating system, a bold border designates a default button—meaning it is the one that is activated by default when you press Enter assuming you haven't changed the focus to another ...