InfoPath Dev

I am a newbie.  And discovering things new, and missed, all the time. I have highlighted my entire PrintView, set the all lines to autosize. But firstly, I notice that the minimum size is 4px. Secondly, is this sizing dependent on the row being empty of data? I have learnt that hard coded text on a form can be easily coppied to a Print ...

And what I am suggesting is that you click on the EmpName field in your data source task pane (where you clicked on the group for the repeating table) and set the default value to equal the data node that the drop down you created is bound to. That way, when they select the value from the drop down, all the rows in the repeating table get set to ...

I find that if I am testing functions as has been suggested, In a Form without an external DB,I can quite easily add the new controls and new fields, and test the controls. But, it seems impossible to add them when I have an external Database connected.   Any clues where I am going wrong?

Hi Hilary, Thanks a lot for the reply. Assume i have a simle Table in database emptable with "EmpName", "TaskName" and "Hours" Column. When i design a form i add a drop down list and enter values manually into this drop down list ( e.g. "John", "Mark" etc). Then i select datasource, right click ...

Hi Reuben, Is the list of users just in a regular old SharePoint list that you have created and you want to bind that list to a dropdown in InfoPath or are you saying you want to be able to get the list of all users from a SharePoint site and populate a dropdown with that information?

Hi, I'm confused. When you say [quote user="murphythadog"]from the first section it never pulls in the data from the second section.[/quote] What is the first section and what is the second? Looking at screenshot with your first post, I can't quite understand exactly what you want to do. There's a sample form at this post ...

 Hi, I have a dropdown list in my IP 2003 form that should be populated with the list of users from the sharepoint site (WSS 3.0). How to go about doing this??  Regards, Reuben

You can use translate for this. I'm attaching an IP 2003 template where the default value of the first field on the form is set to display yyyymmddhhmmss: translate(translate(translate(now(), "T", ""), ":", ""), "-", "") is the formula. If you want only digits for year, you can use ...

Hello,  In InfoPath is it possible to filter items pulled into a dropdown from a SharePoint List based on metadata in that list and selections made by the user on the form?  Thanks for your help.