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Found this approach which from an user perspective is not to preffer as you need to do a round trip to the server. The validation should I think be in the client to give a good user experience... "On submittal, send the data to a Web service and perform all possible validations on the server side. For example, if you have a condition that ...

Just out of curiosity Does it take 8 minutes to just populate or does it take also time retrieving the items ....

For me best practice is regarding Business logic Separate presentation and business logic in different layers http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa581779.aspx "Reuse" Validation and Business rules ==> you write it once and it is used in ASP.NET, services etc. Exampel is the Enterprise Lib Validation Block where you have a ...

Welcome to the forum Maureen. 400 items are a lot to load into your form and it takes quite a while. For performance reasons and often usability you want to break this up into smaller lists and then query for the actual items. So create groupings by type, category, etc and then users can find the item they need in a more organized manner and it ...

 My first post, wish me luck.  I  have successfully populated a drop down list using the code listed here:   http://enterprise-solutions.swits.net/infopath2007/programmatically-fill-populate-drop-down-list-box-infopath-2007.htm In fact, I've added over 400 items to my drop down list.   The problem, it ...

 I am not a infopath developer,  but we use infopath for study data entry. We have forms created that submit to a local webserver that processes the form xml into our databases. Now for some reason occaionally we get the error  "The hyperlink address where the form was supposed to be submitted is accessing another ...

Yes.  The data you want just needs to be moved into your main data source from the secondary. The main is what gets saved in your XML file.

Do a search on IPD for current() this is the function which will allow you to access the repeating record you are selecting.  The syntax has to bbe correct for it to work, i would refer to some samples. You should be able to use it in your set field action.

Just add a repeating group or fields, depending on your need, to your main data source. Right Click on the node.

ah yes, i understand what you mean by set field now. when the user checks/unchecks a checkbox the value of the textbox (which is also inside the repeating section and binds to another field in the sp list) is copied to a field in the main form. this means that if the user selects the checkboxes: england usa france   the field in ...