InfoPath Dev

What is your naming convention for your submitted XML? I ask because you may be able to use a formula to create the URL you need - you could set the default value for a field to the formula for the URL and then have a hyperlink control on your form with that field as the data source.... The only real hiccup would be if your file names contain ...

Hi - welcome to the forum. I think you are saying you'd like to use a table from your SQL database as a data source for your combo box. Here's a link to an Office Online article about this: ...

Could you elaberate more on what you mean here. Trying to accomplish this, but just not working out. Filter and add where Name on the Form Users data connection is equal to UserName. (This is why the name that goes into the UserName field should match the Name on the Form Users list from sharepoint) So far, I have a field called current user ...

Thanks so much for posting details of your work-around for others! :-}

If you try to open the template, rather than preview it, sometimes it will error and give you a better message (sorry about the 2010 thing - I thought I saved it as 2007!) What error are you getting when you try to preview?

I have created an Infopath 2010 web form for use on a Sharepoint 2010 site.This form does not submit to a list or library, but submits data directly to SAP via web services. My sharepoint page was created in SharePoint Designer 2010, so I'm restricted to XSL and javascript. it has a dataview web part with a connection to web ...

[quote user="Patrick Halstead"]Keep in mind that you need to learn a little bit about how InfoPath works.[/quote] Working on it. [quote user="Patrick Halstead"]Have you tried to open the form up in the designer and click on Tools->Data Connections? You can add the connection to the XML file there and if you are still ...

Can you explain this clearly and point me to an example...cheers "you can add as many different data connections as you want and use them at different times so that is not a problem. "

As I said very clearly in my previous post: Views do not have their own submit options and they do not have their own data connections.  Nothing is "cascading" because the submit options and data connections belong to the form template, not the views. However, you can add as many different data connections as you want and use them ...

No you can't. When you set the submit options for one view it gets carried across to all your other views. Similarly when you set a data connection in one view it cascades to all other views.