InfoPath Dev

Create a ID field, and add a default value to it as below: count(preceding-sibling::<SectionName>)+1

Thanks for your reply. Attached is a image that I hope will explain the situation better than my words can describe. This is a state government form which requires that each character (whether filled out by hand or electronically) sit inside each individual box. I need to create an InfoPath form that exactly duplicates these boxes ...

Thank you very much for the reply! I tried your idea and enjoy the ease of it, but I have a problem; within one of the sections I need to have a variable amount of checkboxes (0-2 usually), and am currently unaware how to fit that into the whole repeating fields idea. IE. when I add a checkbox into the repeating section, it puts that same ...

 Hi,  My form has a repeating section and I'd like each occurrence to incrementally auto-number itself.  Any ideas how to do this codelessly?   Thanks, Steve

I've been looking for a solution to this for some time nom - and I just came accross this :  Custom SharePoint User WebService V1.0 - (useful to switch views depending on the current user's SharePoint groups in Infopath) Actually the WebService has only one method: GetUserGroupsFromCurrentUser(). This method simply returns the ...

I don't understand what you mean by "scannable" or what the purpose of separating the text into separate boxes is.  Would you care to enlighten us?

Hi,  I just found this blog, and as it was something I'd been hunting for for ages I thought I'd share it :   Custom SharePoint User WebService V1.0 - (useful to switch views depending on the current user's SharePoint groups in Infopath) Actually the WebService has only one method: GetUserGroupsFromCurrentUser(). This ...

Hi,  thanks so much for your detailed post.  I found this link and hope it may be useful to others :  http://blog.ianchivers.com/wordpress/?p=37  Details here :Custom SharePoint User WebService V1.0 - (useful to switch views depending on the current user's SharePoint groups in Infopath) Actually the WebService has only ...

 yes you are right, it wont work in this situation, i didnt notice that you were using rules to show hide some rows already. i will get back to you on this tomorrow

Thanks for your reply. That does work, but I was hoping that there was a special control that had been developed for this purpose. I have about a hundred of these scannable input fields to recreate in my form, which would create almost 1,000 individual text boxes. Thanks, Stuart