InfoPath Dev

Matt...I just ran into this same situation. Did you find an easier solution? I have some dropdowns I am filling in from some data sources where the first item is blank but there is a value like ''00'' for blank. Right now I have two blanks in the combo and I want to default to ''00'' but I do not want to see two blanks in the dropdown.

Welcome... Pretty simple. In a for loop you can do something like: for (i=0;i<XDocument.DOM.selectNodes(...XPath...).length;i++) { XDocument.DOM.selectNodes(...XPath...)(index).text }

All, I saw this interesting article. Check it out. Using one form library to support multiple InfoPath templates -http://www.msd2d.com/Content/Tip_viewitem_03NoAuth.aspx?id=508c8437-ee7f-4ba0-ac43-183308e3be0b&section=Sharepoint

Ok, here are some code snippets that you can try to use. You should be able to write a web webservice that returns an XML string and then you can subsequently push that into you InfoPath form's main DOM. They are in VBScript. This first method will allow you take an XML string and append it into the main DOM. When calling this method ...

Inferring only occurs when designing when going through the data connection wizard. So, one approach would be when going through the wizard to hook in your webservice to set sample data such that you entire schema can be inferred. Once that is done, you should be ok. Another thing you can do is pass a strongly typed dataset from your .NET ...

Little confused. I can tell you meant to say memo, not meme :-) Although an InfoPath field does not have a max character length unless you specify one in the textbox's properties. A text value in InfoPath should be able to insert or updat to a memo field in Access. Please clarify if I missed the point.

If the data is in a SQL DB, if you are using a select statement, why not do a select distinct?

If you are using .NET managed code you generate in C# or .NET within your InfoPath form. Another obtion would be to create a webserivce that generates a GUID that your InfoPath form can call.

Rully, Some of us try to contribute to this forum, like myself, on our free time. I looked at some of the recent threads you started and noticed that you had a response within a day in each instance. I personally started working with InfoPath six months, and I found this forum to be priceless in my learning experience. I guess if we can try to ...

That is becuase when you made you data connection to your webservice, InfoPath will ''infer'' the schema from XML returned in a sample call to the webservice made during the data connection setup. If your webservice has parameters, you must pass values into the webservice that will return repeating data. So run through the data connection wizard ...