InfoPath Dev

Hi There, I have a very simple task, I need to use qrules to generate a random number, so I can use this within the form, at the moment I am trying to create a new rule on form load, that sets the command to GenerateRandomNumber and then ruse the results box to output the number. however this does not seem to work. can someone explain how to ...

Hello smonczka, this is not possible at all because you can´t promote a text field (from Infopath) to a people object in SharePoint. Commonly there are two alternative workarounds for this issue. 1. Using a filter webpart on your page This workaround is only possible if you use "Enterprise Edition" of SharePoint-Server because the ...

InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 I have a form that that contains a dropdown in it that lists employee names.  Users open the form, select an employee from the dropdown and then submit the form to a SharePoint Forms library.   The situation is that I am trying to create a filtered view in ...

InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 I have a form that that contains a dropdown in it that lists employee names.  Users open the form, select an employee from the dropdown and then submit the form to a SharePoint Forms library.   The situation is that I am trying to create a filtered view in ...

As you mention, you will need SharePoint Workflow here. You do not want nor need multiple submits, nor do you need to email the entire form.  My first question is - will the users in the email process (the "next person in the list") need to edit the InfoPath form and put something in it, or are you just routing for let's ...

I would think that the first step would be to call the GetUserProfileByName method of the UserProfileService.asmx web service.  This is a "Secondary Data Connection".  Once you get the User's Profile (by passing in a blank value, that gets the currently logged in user), you can compare the first and last name.  If you ...

That worked.  I don't know why I didn't think of that.  I am doing something similar to that in another form.  I should know better by now! Thanks for the help on this Jimmy. -Eric

Hi Pendsep and welcome, You have stumbled upon one of the biggest challenges of InfoPath and SharePoint. SharePoint handles flat table data. InfoPath is more powerful and supports hierarchical XML data. Unfortunately, you can't promote repeating data to separate SharePoint columns. You can hardcode the columns and have the form set them, but ...

Hi Kev, Other Office products (Word and PowerPoint) support compressing images, but sadly InfoPath does not. Normally, we recommend people just replace the images with links - i.e. upload images to a web site and replace them with links. We sell a qRules form plugin that does this automatically in the background when users add images. ...