InfoPath Dev

To display your InfoPath form data in a Web page, you can write XSL to translate your form into HTML. With a little knowledge of XSL this is a straightforward task. To display the contents of a rich text field you must use xsl:copy-of instead of xsl:value-of. This allows the XHTML content to be displayed in the Web page. But you will quickly ...

InfoPath forms can do a lot of things. But at times you might want one form to launch another form to perform a different, but related task. You might have needs for numerous forms to work together as part of an overall solution. In this task we will create several buttons which will launch a supporting form using the New, NewFromSolution, and ...

There will be times when you will want to switch views during unsupported events, such as the OnAfterChange event. Due to technical reasons in the underlying platform, InfoPath only allows you to switch views during the OnLoad event and the OnClick event handlers for buttons in the form or on toolbars. The Switch View rule action is only available ...

With default settings, Internet Explorer might warn you when your InfoPath form attempts to access data across domains (see Figure 1). Notice that the title bar is labeled as "Internet Explorer"; this is because Internet Explorer, and not InfoPath, is posing the security risk. Although this is beneficial for security purposes, if you are ...

Check Box and Option Button controls have very limited conditional formatting choices. In fact, the InfoPath UI provides only one conditional formatting choice for these two controls: disable. But disabling a control is not always the right choice. In certain conditions you might prefer to hide the control. Although the techniques described ...

When your design calls for navigation buttons that are smaller than the default size, your attempts to resize the buttons and font within the designer might prove frustrating at best. The arrows seem to never center correctly. Creating miniature navigation buttons in InfoPath can be done, but you must make a simple manual addition to the inline ...

At some point it might be necessary to keep track of order of the selections a user makes in a single list box or drop-down list box. You can accomplish this by writing your own code in an OnAfterChange event handler, or you can use rules. In this task we will create a list box and track the order of the user's selections in another field in ...

When list box entries are looked up in either the form's data source or a data connection, you might end up with the user being presented duplicate options. You can correct this, and display only unique options in a list, by using a filter and the appropriate XPath. In this task we will create a filtered drop-down list box that presents the ...

Buttons that display pictures, with or without a text label, are a common practice in Web pages and are extremely useful in certain scenarios. Picture buttons can often convey much more information to a user than text buttons and do so in less space. But InfoPath has no feature that allows you to create such a button. In fact true picture buttons, ...

InfoPath view .xsl files contain three or four standard internal style sheets, depending on whether you have specified a color scheme. These can be identified by the attributes controlStyle='controlStyle', tableEditor="TableStyleRulesID", languageStyle='languageStyle', and themeStyle='urn:office.microsoft.com:themeBlue'. Never modify any ...