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Hi Bob Hansen and welcome,
The only way to automatically update the form when Access changes would be to add a polling loop to the form's taskpane that checks every minute for a change and if it finds one changes the value. You can't do it if the form isn't running.
Perhaps just adding a refresh button on your form that re-queries ...
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Just add a rule to one of the fields in the section that is automatically added and it will fire.
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Hi David Foster and welcome,
InfoPath has a default time out of 30 seconds for data connections and I'm guessing that's causing your problem. To increase this, you'll have to add some code to your form. Another option would be to filter the data dynamically and just pull down the data that the user needs to access at that moment. This ...
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Shouldn't require that. We do lots of work in Visual Studio and users don't have to have anything on their computers other than InfoPath.
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Hi MBryant10,
Are you exporting from SharePoint or from InfoPath? InfoPath Export to Excel supports exporting repeating items as separate rows. Make sure that the repeating groups are following best practices for schema structure - i.e. make sure they are under a parent group that is not repeating.
If you are trying to do this from SharePoint, ...
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Hi Robszar,
This is easy to do without code. Just use rules. You can set the secondary data source based on the action of rules.
Hope this helps you,
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Hi Jenfi,
This is really easy to do. Some tutorials cover pieces of it. For example, Qdabra's Active Directory Web Service comes with a bunch of documentation for setting up a form to query user name of the logged in user. To query your database, you can install the free trial of Qdabra's Database Accelerator which includes the active ...
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Hi Sukumarsb,
Here's a link: http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/qRules.aspx
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Username() pulls from the local machine's environment. She can change her name there and it should work. Or, you could just use Qdabra's Active Directory Web Service to get the user's name and not have to worry about this problem in the future.
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Hi TechPundit,
If your IT team isn't performing backups or if you are the IT team, then YES - you need to perform backups because computers can crash and that includes SharePoint since it runs on a computer.
Microsoft recommends that you limit your form libraries to 3000-5000 entries to reduce view performance issues. Qdabra's DBXL ...