InfoPath Dev

You might need to display a custom picture in your form based on field values. You can do this using an Active Serve Page that takes parameters. Your Active Serve Page might return a barcode, a map, a photograph, or any other kind of picture. Your form will use the Linked Picture control. In this task we will show how to set up the linked picture ...

After installing InfoPath 2003 SP1 you may have noticed when you try to open an InfoPath form template (see Figure 1) or form (see Figure 2) from a Web site or from SharePoint that a new File Download dialog box appears. These warning dialog boxes can quickly become annoying. You can prevent these dialog boxes from appearing by following the ...

One great feature of InfoPath SP1 is the ability to quickly populate a drop-down list box from a variety of data sources. One such data sources is an XML file that has been added to the form as a secondary data source. A common mistake is binding the Drop-down List Box control to the wrong data source. Secondary data sources are very helpful to ...

One anomaly you will run into if you have the Windows XP Themes turned on and are using a task pane or a modal dialog in your form is that buttons in these HTML pages will look different than those inside the InfoPath form view. This is because the HTML pages within InfoPath do not have this feature turned on. You can correct this by adding the ...

Most people will never run into this problem, but a few of you will and it could drive you nuts. The InfoPath application includes the e-mail features Send Form As Attachment in the designer, and Send To Mail Recipient in the editor. These are both found under the File menu. If for some reason these are not present, one or more issues will need ...

When creating a new form from a SQL database connection, there are a couple of things to remember in order to enable the Submit To Database feature.The SQL tables used must have a primary key, unique constraint, or unique index. Without this you will receive the following error in the summary of the Data Connection Wizard: Submit status: Not ...