InfoPath Dev

Hey Very Tender, Connectivity problems? There is a 10 minute lock on files in SharePoint. You might just wait 10 minutes and see if it changes something. Don't know why. This should work. q Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Hi Kate, Sure, go to Manage Users and you can change permissions so that only some people have access. Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Hi Mephisto, Still confused. So you want to reuse some of the saved values in your custom list? Or do you want to create items in your custom list from the saved form? Does your custom list display the values in a dropdown? SharePoint has many Web services and an extensive programming model. If you need to change some values on save, you can do ...

Hi Fred, Interesting problem. You need to have a submit/retrieve data connection for your main data source. Is it currently just submit? Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Matt, great idea! InfoPath rules are hard to debug and a tool to step through them would be very cool, but would require hooking InfoPath.exe itself which would require an object model that doesn't exist ... Anyway, debugging declarative logic is a big issue for InfoPath. It's easy to do stuff without code, but it's hard to figure out why it ...

Hi Tom and Troy, Did you guys download our AD Web Service? If not, you can still look at the threads posted on it for info on how to connect InfoPath to AD Web Services. The $19.95 download contains useful instructions as well. This is by far our most popular download and tons of people use it. For $19.95, it's hard to beat. :) Patrick Halstead ...

Thanks Matt. We'll get this fixed asapola. Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Hi M2Land, Check out our Database Accelerator in the Downloads-Free section. There's a free eval version you can use to do this. No coding required! :) Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Using CSS is a cool way to change the view. Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP] InfoPathDev

Hi Matt, Yes, this has been on our HowTo list for a long time. We have several samples of doing this, but no time this week. Couple hints are that it's easier to debug code than the XSLT. The Program Manager for this feature suggests writing code OnMergeRequest to do the custom merge since the XSLT can be hard to figure out. Patrick Halstead ...