InfoPath Dev

Thanks Hilary, I am a bit new to SharePoint, and so a little lost in the lingo here. Currently my main list (siteVisits) has its drop-down list for 'site', and some 'siteParamaters' fields populated from a secondary list (siteSpecs), via a secondary data connection. The siteParameter fields values are set by rules when the ...

OK, I've got a drop-down list populating from a different list, and rules to set some other fields from that list. (I am so helpless until I write my problem out in your forum.) So I guess my engineers will have to set the specs for each site in the secondary list, if they want it to populate their main list. I wish I had a way to populate ...

My infopath list is where engineers enter specs and measurements they take at sites twice a year. In subsequent visits to a site the first 25 fields (the specs) are apt to be exactly the same. They've asked about getting those 25 fields populated from the record of the previous visit. If I can get a direction of attack without going down too ...

slight modification needed: A form load rule sets the value to 'supervisor' if preferredName is SupervisorA or SupervisorB or SupervisorC, and otherwise the control's default value sets it to 'technician'. In retrospect, I may go back to manual entry just for stability and simplicity given the minimal extra convenience ...

OK, here's what will work: Set the field's value in infoPath rules (which allow "If a and If b ..." etc), but have one of the conditions be "if the field is blank". That is the equivalent of setting a default for the field. I never would have thought of it without your help. gran

Thanks, I see how an outside list with all personnel and their roles would work. However I don't have a list of all technicians. I only know who the supervisors are. So I still need a function for "IF( A or B or C..)" or "IF(A in (B,C,D))". The rules in infopath could use something like that to change a field, but not to ...

In infoPath I have for the default of a field; xpath for If me - "string1" else - "string 2". Here it is: concat(substring("Supervisor", 1, (../my:preferredName = "myName") * string-length("Supervisor")), substring("Technician", 1, (not(../my:preferredName = "myName")) * ...

Thanks, That's what I was hoping you'd say. Best, granDelimiter

I have lists and forms tested and ready to put into production. My instinct is to use the instrument I have been working on, in the same place, and just delete all the test records I have created. When I save these things as templates and reconstitute them, there is a bit of uncertainty. In doing it I have seen some unexplained weird thinks here ...

Alright, so after setting decimal place to 4 in both SharePoint datatype and Infopath textbox properties, the form and the list display numbers rounded off to 4 dec places. But the long number is still stored and shows up if displayed in an unformatted control. That's going to be a lot of formatting, one text box at a time, in all of my ...