InfoPath Dev

Hey mbrady1973, For the radiobuttons, I suggest making their value an integer, and saving that integer to the database (tinyint). This is due to the fact that normally a person can just choose one radiobutton option. "Is there any special considerations that I should give to field sizes etc., in the database?" Not that I know ...

Hi mbrady1973 and welcome, It will be much easier to create the SQL database first then create the InfoPath forms. This will give you the ability to reference th SQL database in InfoPath as a DataSource. Then you can easily drag and drop fields from the datasource onto your design area. "Also, in the evaluation, I need to add radio buttons, ...

Hello Ram and welcome, To make fields in InfoPath required do the following: [1] Right mouse click on a field and choose "Properties" [2] On the "Data" tab, under "Validations and Rules", check the "Cannot be blank" checkbox. [3] Press "Ok" to finish Kind Regards, Samir

Hi Sumeet, The only way to apply custom css to an infopath webbrowser is to manually apply the css to the view1.xsl file packed within an InfoPath form (a.k.a. internal stylesheets). Greg Collins has written a great article explaining how to achieve ...

Hi Dean, You can get the last five positions of the Employee number by using a combination of substring and string-length: Example: substring(EmployeeNumberfield; string-length(EmployeeNumberfield) - 4; 5) If you only want to show the employee number that are 5 positions long, then it will be much easier to do that in code with ...

Hi cywan, I just tried out some code and it works here. What I did was the following: [1] Create 2 textboxes. [2] Go to DataSource and change the type of the first field to "Date" and the second to "Time". [3] Select the date textbox and on the Menu go to Format > Data Formating... [4] Click the "Display the date ...

Hey slingeronline,  I am not sure if there is a way to change the color of the control. An idea for printing might be to create an extra view, just for the printing purpose. - Samir - 

Hi Lou, I found this good article from Micrososft about Connecting InfoPath to Access and populating the database from InfoPath. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011199501033.aspx I hope it helps.  Kind Regards, Samir

Nice going, I'm glad I could help. Kind Regards, Samir

Hi MAS, You can simply get the username of the logged in user by using the following statement in code: this.Application.User.LoginName However, it's not so easy to get the full name of the logged in user. In my opinion the best way is to do a webservice call to one of MOSS's webservices and get Information about the ...