InfoPath Dev

Ah, i see.  That article is all about getting it to work in a browser form, which requires MOSS Enterprise, so I didn't notice the differentiation.

The link you (warrtalon) provided is absolutly the better method (if you can use it.) Also, I'm probably going to use Qdabra to solve my particular problem, as you suggested, since it is way cheaper than MOSS. But, it is worth noting that the method described in your link will not work for WSS 3.0 because the service isn't ...

Yes, thanks Ted!

Hi Stacie, See the sample attached, look at the rule I added to the DD, it has a rule to always set the value of the textbox to the value of the DD.  When you change the DD it changes the text box. Is this what you are trying to do? Ted

Hi Roger, If you use the now() function to get the current date/time you will get the time down to a 100th of a second.  If you concactenate the user ID along with now() as the unique ID you should be fine as the odds that someone saves the form with the same user name at the exact same 100th of a second is pretty small. SharePoint also ...

I have a dropdown control that lists our customers.  DD value = CCUST Display = CustomerName.  I would like when the user selects a customer name from the dropdown list that the value of their selection gets populated into a textbox.  Not sure how to go about doing this.

Ugh, I totally forgot about that. That worked.  Thanks.

Rick, I don't think that's the right link.  That's a lot of code to do what can easily be done without code.  That article is using the wrong web method.  If you use GetUserProfileByname, then you can return the FirstName, LastName, PreferredName (full name) all without code.  This is the proper article for getting ...

Sorry to bump this, but here is an updated link, to save someone from searching for it.   http://vbcity.com/blogs/skullcrusher/archive/2008/09/26/get-the-full-user-name-in-a-web-hosted-infopath-form.aspx