InfoPath Dev

Hi, Patrick. I don't want the user to upload files, I just want them to specify the path and file name. And a link control, to my knowledge, does not allow the user to alter the link URL. If I had a way to upload images to this forum, I could show examples of the layout changes. If you let me know your email address, I can send them directly to ...

I never thought InfoPath would be so frustrating. I want to add a simple control to my form that enables the user to open a file browser to specify a file name and path for an anyuri element. This is available in standard HTML forms, using the ''file'' value for the type attribute of the input element. Why InfoPath does not provide the same ...

Ok, my results so far... I have successfully created an ActiveX control that implements a browse button and binds the FilePath property to an anyuri field in my data source. However, to be packaged with an InfoPath form, the .cab file containing the ActiveX control has to be digitally signed -- and the method for signing in Andrew Ma's article ...

Perfect! Thanks, Frank.

Hi, Frank. I investigated doing what you suggest a while back but there is very little documentation about what InfoPath needs for the wrapper. Microsoft's Webcast on using custom controls in InfoPath does give an overview, but refers for the details to a document on MSDN that I have not been able to find. Unfortunately, it seems there's no way ...

Thanks, Patrick. I had already tried looking on MSDN/Google but your search string appears to yield much more useful hits.

I have created a form that uses the Microsoft Common Dialog Control linked to a button in the form to enable users to browse for a file name to insert into a field of type anyuri. However, not everyone has this control on their machine. Is there one available as part of the basic operating system (i.e. one that does not have to be distributed ...