InfoPath Dev

InfoPath evaluates the User Roles in top-down order, as they appear in the Manage User Roles dialog box. But there is no built-in way to reorder these roles. Manually editing the manifest.xsf file is the only way to accomplish this. Here are the steps:Extract the form files to a folder, and then close the InfoPath designer. InfoPath places a lock ...

While developing forms in InfoPath, it is likely that you will one day need a label for a check box or an option button that uses a font size other than the default 10pt. Using a different font size will make the control simply not look right next to the label. Luckily these controls are resizable (this is true for both V1 and ...

STATUS: Fixed in InfoPath 2003 SP1. SCOPE:Occurs in both V1 and SP-1.Not language specific.DESCRIPTION: On 2004.07.23, I was sent a form to help track down an issue where dashed red lines that appears when data for a particular field is invalid. After a little playing, I was able to narrow it down to a simple repro. It’s an ...

STATUS: Fixed in InfoPath 2003 SP1. DESCRIPTION: I uncovered this previously unknown problem on 2004-07-17 while updating the InfoPathDev Web site using an RSS 2.0 Generator InfoPath form I created. I've reported it to Microsoft. I wanted to reorder the list of InfoPathDev example forms to put the more popular ones at the top. I posted ...

In InfoPath, the order of processing when a user clicks a button is:RulesCodeWhen you write your OnClick event handler, take into account that any rules associated with the button will be processed before the code is reached. This can be very useful, but can also create some headaches if not understood. ©2004 Greg Collins. All rights ...

NOTE: This article was written for the original InfoPath 2003, which did not support secondary data sources. You can still use code to populate a drop-down list box, but the better approach is to have the drop-down list populate from a secondary data source, and then use code to add nodes to that list in your secondary DOM. - - - - ...

To add a header or footer to your InfoPath form printout, do the following:In the Views task pane, double-click the view for which you want to add a header or footer.In the View Properties dialog box, select the Print Settings tab.Click Header, or click Footer.Construct the header or footer the way you want and then click OK.Click OK to exit the ...

If you are trying to identify the current table row so that you can make modifications to other field in that row, the safest thing to do is to make those modifications using code. This will be the fastest (performance-wise) solution. You can see how this is done by playing with my example form: Populating Table Row After Selection ...

While developing your InfoPath form, you might need to have a drop-down list box display more information from more than one field. This is actually quite simple by manually modifying your view .xsl file. In this task we will demonstrate the changes necessary to display multiple fields in a single drop-down list box. APPROACH 1: The first ...