InfoPath Dev

I appreciate you looking at this and helping me I am on a deadline and really need a quick fix.   Thanks

 Hi, you right on some control, you can't directly hide, but you can do a trick.You can add a section and insert your control on that section and make your conditional formatting on that section.

One last question - - I just tried this on a datePicker control - - in Conditional Formatting, 'Hide this control' is not available - - only Read Only Is there something I'm missing here?

I saw that and I really wasn't sure how to get it to work - - I tried a couple of things, but just couldn't figure it out - - After I saw your post - - I tried it again and realized I was thinking of it backwards - - make it invisible and make it visible if the ddl item was 'Other' When I changed to 'is not equal to' ...

 Hi, yes it's quite possible for that you can use "Conditional formatting" to hide your textbox if your dropdown choice is different of "other". You just have to right click on your textbox and select "Condiional foratting"  

In my InfoPath form, I have a dropdown list with choices to make, and one of the choices is 'Other'. I need to know how to create a textbox which is not visible (or disabled) by default, but ONLY if the user chooses 'Other' from the ddl, then the textbox becomes visible. Is that possible in InfoPath?

 Hi can you give more information about the code you use to sort your list. A little suggestion, if you sort your sharepoint view on the way you want to display them on your drop dow. Is that making it work ?

We needed to query into an old database via our infopath forms. Although, this database is old it is used on a regular basis for managing documents and information. This database can be accessed via ODBC . So we used Mircosoft Access. Using MS Access, we are able to access the fields and the data in this old database using ODBC. When you ...

 Hi, for that you can use:            string Filename = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("Xpath", this.NamespaceManager).Value; You have to replace Xpath by your own for that right click on your field on"Data source" and click copy Xpath, after at ...

I am not a developer, but was hoping someone could shed some light on what is going on. We have an InfoPath 2007 form in SharePoint 2007 that has some code written behind it to sort the dropdown list. We are in the process of testing / moving to SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath Designer 2010. I have successfully moved the form to our SharePoint 2010 ...