InfoPath Dev

well to code in infopath you need VSTA(Visual studio tools for applications) installed on your machine. to install you need to modify the office installation on your machine.you should not be requiring admin rights for that and even if you need admin rights get your SysAdmin team to do this.

Have you considered the PDF Converter for SharePoint? The latest version can also deal with converting attachments to PDF format. Have a look at this article. It also has a facility to dynamically detect / switch views for PDF Exporting. See this post.

you can create forms (xml) at run time but you cant create template(xsn) at run time

InfoPath won't allow me to - when I try and add any code, I get: "InfoPath cannot add the event handler. To work with C# code, VSTA is required..... etc" I don't have any admin rights to install applications on my machine. I think I'm going to look into a way to filter the data before it's sent to the form as an ...

well when we use repeating controls(tables/sections) , when a new row/section is inserted, it produces exact copy of the xml of the original row/section except the values. to identify fields you can use indexing, so you can access them using field1[1], field1[2]....

you will need to write code on submit, save, open.

well you can write code in your form.

Hi, I understand that rules can be set to populate fields using data retrieved from a secondary data source. I'm just wondering if this can be done via Visual Basic code? Reason is because I kind of have alot of fields and using code might be faster to populate my form? The replaceself function can be used to replace nodes but is there code ...

Hi Qazi Thanks for your reply! I did get the form working, but by changing the Data Connection Response Size rather than the timeout - the form now opens but it's painfully slow, it just took about a minute to load, and then  the same again to change views within the form... you mentioned that I could use code to load the ...

 Hi Patrick,                 plz add my problem to ur tasks, i am still held up with dis problem.Its really bugging and i need to find some soln 4 it.Its better if i get immediate assistance. waiting for ur reply Thank you.