InfoPath Dev

Hi Jeroen, Here are three links to read: http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/06/13/Using-XPath_2700_s-_2700_preceding_2D00_sibling_2700_-Axis-Correctly.aspx http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2004/07/08/Identify-the-Current-Table-Row.aspx ...

Hi Wispa, If you want to use Choice you can't derive the form from a SQL DB schema. You need to create it from XML to begin with. Then, submit it to SQL using a Web Service. Qdabra provides a free trial of a Web Service for SQL that you can submit your form to and if you get it working, it's a very inexpensive option (i.e. it will save ...

Have you read Jimmy's blog on this: http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/jimmy/archive/2009/03/06/automatically-adding-rows-to-repeating-sections.aspx

Hi Louise, I'm not sure I understand your question. You want to control access to parts of the template. Do you mean you want to control access to certain XML files created with the template? InfoPath doesn't provide template section permissioning. SharePoint supports XML instance permissioning but it's manual. Qdabra's DBXL ...

Hi Arran, If the fields in the row are all in the main data source, you can use xpath to correctly select them when doing the calculations. There is a function called preceding-sibling which you will want to master. Here are a bunch of ...

Hi CPalm, This seems like overkill to me. Are you doing this to provide some kind of offline help? What happens when they go back online and submit to the DB? Does it reconcile the version submitted? If not, how do you prevent other people from editing. If you absolutely need offline support, you could just use InfoPath's built-in support ...

Use links to open the forms from SharePoint. Don't send them in Outlook as attachments, just send the view. That should solve your problem. To construct the links, you may need to add some rules to your forms. I have a blog post coming in a week or so that details how to do this. Good luck!

Hi Hummer, To automatically add rows to a repeating table requires code. We provide the free qRules 1.8 to do this. There are commands for inserting items into a repeating table and for copying a table from one place to another. Go to Qdabra.com->Products and download. Since it requires code, you'll have to Admin-deploy the form, but that ...

You can do #1 but not #2 because IPFS (browser forms) doesn't support attachments yet ...