InfoPath Dev

Thanks Steelman. You rock.

Hi Somebody, Best practice is to use a Web Service. Don't put code in your form. Pass a parameter to the Web Service and have it interact with SQL. Filtering should be done on the server. Qdabra has a free trial of it's WSSP Web Service product. The Web Service is cheap and will save you time and money. You can install it by going to ...

Is your expression box in a repeating section? Does it reference the correct rows based on what count it is? What's the xpath for your expression box?  

Hi Notarian, That's probably the best approach if you already have content in SQL. Too bad you didn't use a Web Service in the beginning. Then it would be easier for you and less costly from a maintenance perspective when the form changes. We provide a Web Service that stores a copy of the XML along with the data in a SQL database. This ...

Have you tried inserting a page break between your records? In the InfoPath Designer you have a view with repeating records. Place your cursor inside the repeating section and Insert->Page Break.

Hi Ben, You'll want to use SetContext method - requires code. Search for that in the InfoPath 2003 SDK.

Hi JacquesDP, This question comes up a lot recently. We have a tool that we used to sell 3-4 years ago, but we haven't had time to finish retesting it on ShP 2007. You could look at creating your own STSadm.exe script. Do you know how to use stsadm.exe? If not, please take a look at it. It supports various options. Here's a link: ...

Hi ITMatters, Please don't double post. We look at all posts and strive to respond to at least 90% of them within a week. The error you are seeing is a problem with the registry configuration which likely means the software didn't install correctly. If it only happens on one environment, I'd say that it's a config issue. Please ...

Hi Bill, This was one of the best additions to 2007. There's no way to do it in 2003. You're right about OnShutdown being too late. I'll ask Greg if he has any other ideas.

Hi Sailor and welcome! In your main data source right click on the group that contains the dropdowns that you want to repeat. Choose "reference". Drag the newly created fields to your view. Now you should be able to do what you want.