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my form allows the user to search their local file system and ''attach'' documents (.doc,.xls and .pdf), now i have a hyperlink to that file however the hyperlink does not work as i've read since it's the local file system the link will not open due to security issues. SO... how on earth do i replicate the hyperlink functionality. I need to be ...

Thanks Greg, that's great.. the last thing i want to know is where would i actually put the programming to set these fields? I can't seem to find an on data bound type of thing or an on selected for the master..

No problem.

You can set up an XML secondary data source (2DS) with the fields you need. These fields wont' be saved. Add the 2DS fields to the detail section, and programmatically set their values. Since only one detail section appears at a time, you can get away with this.

That's what I figured. Thanks so much for getting back to me.

Welcome! That's the Hundred Million Dollar Question that every asks. The answer is no. It is there for security reasons to prevent SPAM and other unintentional malicious use of a person's email address.

What do you mean you cannot see them? As in--there is no data returned from SharePoint? Or that you don't have a table in the view?

ok so i've got that part working (thanks for your reply by the way) but i have another question.. the detail section, these values are not stored in a datasource of any sort rather i would like to be able to set them when the master has been selected and then i will programmatically enter the values at that time.. can this be done or do the values ...

XDocument.Query() is used when your main DOM is connected to a datasource like SQL or Access. You have a data connection called ''matters''. You need to query that data connection.

There needs to be some unique identifier for that row, whether its an ID or the physical row number in the XML... When the button is clicked, set a field value with that identifier. In the other view, filter based on that identifier, to only show that row. When you switch back to the catalog view, you might want to clear the value of that ...