InfoPath Dev

Hi Slovak1, I think your best option is to use a form load rule. This rule will run every time a form is opened. You just need to apply a rule that checks if it is a new form being created, or if someone is opening a submitted form. If it is a new form, do nothing and let the user complete the form as normal. If it is a submitted form, ...

To clarify some detail i was getting the issue while previewing the form from design mode. I cannot understand why this feature would be removed as it means you would have to upload the template to sharepoint every time you want to test something. Once this is done if becoames very painful to debug code and increase your debug cycle. To preview ...

Thank you again for quick response. you are right every time new lib is added I have to update my xsn. but the structure is fixed now. no more new libs. I just did not think of that, again I am new to InfoPath So, you are suggesting to create another XML file to serve like app.config file? And have paths to other sites and their libs in that ...

Hi Amira, Content Types are a best practice. Good job on that. I'm confused by your explanation: "I have all docs from all sites from all lib1 be secondary  sources into my main site-->lib1-->form1" Isn't this rather non-scalable? You must have lots of data connections for your form template and whenever a ...

Create a Print View that substitutes a nice image for the button or an appropriate character from the Wingdings font.

Hi Quicksilver, Please ask the person who writes the content for that site. We aren't free support for the articles on that site. The author of those articles should have her own forum instead of sending everyone here. To filter and sort a SharePoint list in InfoPath, I suggest installing our free trial of qRules. You'll be up and ...

Hi Paul, The People Picker is a special control but you should still be able to set a rule on it and trigger some actions based on input. Of course, the user filling out the form will have to tab out of the field to have the rule fire. If that is unacceptable, why not just use your own fields to populate users from Active ...

This is really easy to do. Add a data connection to the SharePoint list called Courses. Show the values for name and date in two dropdowns. Second dropdown is filtered on first.. Add a rule to the second dropdown that queries a data connection to get the Attendee Names based on the first two values. If you add the SharePoint list IDs ...

Hi Carolyn, If you designed your InfoPath Form Template from an XSD, the default functionality is to respect that schema and not add extraneous elements. The only way to workaround this is to manually change it by saving the template as source files and going in and modifying by hand. I'm guessing that you didn't design the form this way. ...

Hi Bob Hansen and welcome, The only way to automatically update the form when Access changes would be to add a polling loop to the form's taskpane that checks every minute for a change and if it finds one changes the value. You can't do it if the form isn't running. Perhaps just adding a refresh button on your form that re-queries ...