InfoPath Dev

I've not been successful in getting user or manager data from GetUserProfileByName and no errors are occuring. I'm looking for guidance on what troubleshooting steps I should take beyond what I've tried. My preliminary InfoPath form simply has a textbox that is not successfully retrieving the user account when calling ...

It's been a while since I've been able to revisit this problem.  Hilary, thank you for pointing out the "is not blank" issue.  It should have dawned on me....but it didn't, and I appreciate you spelling it out! I tried Ernesto's suggestion (thank you Ernesto) and it worked. I created an "is not ...

Really, the only way I can think to do something like this would involve having separate fields for your Month, Day and Year, and adding logic to populate your actual date field with a concatenation with those values. But since you also want a date picker -- I can't think of a way to format that nicely....

What if you gave the field a default value on load like a space or . (dot) or something that would change?  Kind of a lame approach but it might work.

Yes, that is what I've done (use text boxes for auto fill fields) although you can probably use any type of control.  I updated my post with the part of the steps that are important to this process - read it again when it appears. (For some reason it doesn't update immediately). This thread addresses the issue you're having: ...

[quote user="dms.WebDev"] You stated in your first post that project manager is a drop down list which is appropriate if you want the user to choose a project and based on choice have other controls (like text boxes) auto-populate.  When you set up the rule > Actions and then Filter, that is where the auto-fill ...

You stated in your first post that project manager is a drop down list which is appropriate if you want the user to choose a project and based on choice have other controls (like text boxes) auto-populate.  When you get to the part (copied below) in the steps (filtering )that is where the auto-fill trickery happens.  You ...

yes, the drop down works, and is using a secondary source, which is a list on the sharepoint server.  -Guy

I am getting the same issue SetValue works only first time to update the field value.Second time trying to update the value through setvalue its not updating the value.   I am not getting the error but I can see the value is changed second time through debugging but it lost when form load in browser

I have a form that has repeating sections that contain both fields and other repeating sections that contain fields. I need to programmatically access the values of these fields and save them to a string, but I can't figure out how. Please help! Thanks, Camille