InfoPath Dev

Hi, I want to display the list of validation errors in the error collection on a form submit action instead of infopath default error dialog. It need to be like a summary validation control display in asp.net. Ideally it will be a bulleted list on top of the form with all the error messages in red. How can I achieve it? thanks, khurram

Hi, I have an infopath form with a dropdown list of 275 items that I have manually entered one by one (What a pain). I have an email data connection which sends an email to a given email address with an action rule on button submit. The form works fine in infopath filler but when i deploy it on SharePoint and submit the form it crashes. When I ...

I agree with you Hilary, for asterisk showing up its ok, but if you have radio button group in your form, without any default selection, and they cannot be blank, there is red boxes that appear around them which is very annoying indeed and make forms look very weired. I have never seen online forms displayed like this. I do not understand why the ...

i do not want to submit a form if its not valid, but i also do not want controls to show up red and with validation messages as soon as the form is loaded. what i want is that validation only happens once the user starts filling in the controls. Like if i have a required field validation on a textbox it should only show red if a user tabs through ...

Because the user information is loaded in the sharepoint site context and its from there that i want to retrieve it. Also we are using commerce server profiles.

Hi, I am trying to validate a form using rules in infopath 2010. For example if I have a required field I add a rule "Is blank" and then change formatting to bad. It works fine except the validation is performed as soon as the form is loaded, even before the user has submitted the form by clicking on a button. Am I missing something? ...

I need to pre-populate user profile information recuperated from SharePoint context through some custom code.

Hi Patrick, Thanks for the reply. Can I have a code associated with the XTP? The reusable part of my template also has some code to pre-populate user information and was wondering if it can be saved with the template? thanks, khurram

Hi, I am new to Infopath and sharepoint and have a question regarding best practices to structure infopath forms. I have 4 forms which contain a common part i.e. user information and is pre-populated through some code. I was wondering what is the best way to have that part as a template and integrate it in the other 4 forms without much ...