InfoPath Dev

Patrick, I recently did this on a form I was working with and it totally messed me up and I was up till 3am trying to figure out what happened. I think there are some bugs on SP1. For instance on my main schema I have a repeating group. I add a secondary schema with a single group. I add the group from the seconday schema as a section onto ...

Thanks Matt...with a little trickery you can do anything...J

I have tried in the past I was not able to, but someone please correct me if I am wrong because I would love to be able to do that too. I was able to call code to do conditional formatting (search on xdExtension for more information).

I highly recommend as a best practice to use webserivces as your facility to get data. Check out these labs:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_08.asphttp://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_tr/html/odc_INF_Lab_09.asp They will help...

I have not used this tool but many have -http://www.infopathdev.com/webstore/detail.aspx?itemid=18 To get information like that I have typically written a webservice to obain AD information.

Read the following article, it will give you some insight into how to improve performance -http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/infopath/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_ta/html/officeinfopathtroubleshootperformancebestpracticeguidelines.asp As well, how are you accessing your data? Webservice? Direct DB connection? Have ...

You may have write some code in either .NET or script to do that. Basically you would have to display a yes/no prompt and then if the user does yes, you would call submit() in code which would submit your form to SharePoint.

It is because the default value you enter is tied to the schema element or attribute that is bound to the control. Setting the default value is not specific to the control. I always found that to be a bummer :-(

Yeah, little late in the game for me to implement a help task pane but will remember that for the future... Thanks...Jason

Looks like I found my answer -http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.infopath/browse_thread/thread/92226f7c31ebd3de/ac3dc0d09aec0e23 Can we confirm this? I also tried putting the dropdown into a dummy section and then adding a tool tip to section. But that does not work very well because the tool tip does not appear when you hover over ...