InfoPath Dev

[quote user="Jimmy"] The Set Default button should allow you to indicate one of the list box entries to mark it as the default.  Have you tried entering any items? The other two options are for indicating a place where the list of options is stored, not where the control's value will be stored.  If the list of options ...

Thanks for giving me some direction here. I created another table within my database.  When I go into my dataconnection and attempt to add the new table to the existing db datasource it prompts me to add a relationship, however there isn't one. If I fudge a relationship, it goes through and adds the table to the datasource (but this ...

[quote user="Jimmy"]  Can you attach a screenshot of your data source, indicating to which field the dropdown box is bound? [/quote] Attached is the data source from the Access DB pulling the inventory data

[quote user="Jimmy"]  Can you attach a screenshot of your data source, indicating to which field the dropdown box is bound? [/quote]  Attached is the datasource (Main) which shows the binding to the dropdown.

 Sorry to sound like a noob, but how exactly does one go about changing the xpath as you describe?

 anyone have any advice? I'm still stuck on this :(

Thanks Hilary, I modified the form from my initial attempt the way you suggested and it worked perfectly. I'm trying to: display all the existing items in your inventory table in a form.    Thanks for your input also Jett!

I'm creating an "order form" that displays an inventory list from an Access db.  The goal is to have a user then change a "quantity" field to the right of each inventory item, to reflect how many of the item they want to order. To get the data to appear in the form I've attached the db and created a ...

I partially figured this out. Attempt 1: I created an InfoPath form using the database template. I connected it to a table called Inventory that had one table with 5 rows of data.  I right clicked on the myFields/dataFields and dragged the column names to the WYSIWYG area and selected "Text Box (repeating)" as well as other ...

 I apologize for my noobish question... I'm trying to create an order form in InfoPath 07. I'd like the form to display a list of inventory (pulled from an Access DB) and have fields to the right of each item where they can select how many of the item they want to order. Step 1 is to display the list of item names, and ...