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August 2006 - Posts

Validation Events

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:25 AM by bsandeman
Curious.... InfoPath validation events seem to trigger before the form has finished loading when you first try to access the form, which is kinda irritating as it slows down form load. The only way that I can think of getting around this is to change Read More...
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Validation & Biztalk

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:38 AM by bsandeman
Continuing from my previous post on Validation..... Finally I have this working within InfoPath without the need for VSTO and to say the least I am very happy! I found the following settings within the InfoPath client.... very happy :-) Read More...
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Office 2007 Beta2 TR

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:32 AM by bsandeman
Finally there seems to be a date being referenced for this to be released, see Mart Muller's blog It should be released on 12th September with 6400 bug fixes. Lets hope they stick to this date, I was originally expecting this release for the end of July. Read More...
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Validation

Posted Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:50 AM by bsandeman
Today I have started to try to add validation to my form, the requirement here is for the validation to be performed by Biztalk Orchestrations, therefore I need to communicate with Biztalk via a URL. The problem with this is that the InfoPath client (VSTA) Read More...
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Buttons, Glorious Buttons...

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:27 AM by bsandeman
After much silly fiddling, copying and pasting and such like, I have at long last got my buttons onto all my views, I nearly went to re-creating them on each view... Thankfully, I accidentally discovered that after copying and pasting my buttons between Read More...
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Copying & Pasting between views

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 10:23 AM by bsandeman
Recently I posted about how I was using buttons to set field data and then submit the form etc.... Well I have had to edit my buttons again and I am getting quite fed up with InfoPath. It is refusing to copy & paste correctly all of the time. Although Read More...
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XML Schema Facets

Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 6:31 AM by bsandeman
Today I worked out how to restrict the values for a drop down box via the XML Schema Definition for a form, very handy. See the following schema extract : <xs:element name="Breakfast"> <xs:simpleType> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> Read More...
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Happy New Home

Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:58 PM by bsandeman
After moving this blog around from blogger.com to wordpress.com and now finally to OfficeZealot.com I feel a lot happier :-) Read More...
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Formulas

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 10:16 AM by bsandeman
This is a bit annoying! If you design a lovely template part and then put formulas on some of the fields for calculating other fields. When the template part is subsequently used within a form, it loses the formulas completely and you have to re-apply Read More...
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This can't be right....can it?...

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 12:35 PM by bsandeman
1. When concatenating fields using rules you cannot put in newlines, you can only do this through code 2. You cannot have both code on a button click event and also have a "close the form" rule on the same button, this in IP client stops the code from Read More...
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Active Directory Checker nicked from ASP

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 12:16 PM by bsandeman
Important Note : This will only work for InfoPath Forms Services, not for InfoPath clients Useful code below to check the membership of Active Directory groups for the current user. For this you need to import the .net library System.DirectoryServices Read More...
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More Questions Answered

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 12:11 PM by bsandeman
Just so that you are aware, I am currently focussing on InfoPath 2007 beta using MOSS and InfoPath Forms Services (ie: displaying the forms in the browser). Therefore please assume unless otherwise stated that all postings are for Forms Services and not Read More...
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Frowns....

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 11:58 AM by bsandeman
Well I have quite a history of frowns sent via the Ms Beta feedback tool, I thought this would be a good place to review them and add any thoughts. Here goes.... (I shall start at the beginning, I hope you're sitting comfortably) Please note that anything Read More...
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Where to begin

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 11:39 AM by bsandeman
Welcome, If you’re reading this you’re either a fellow InfoPath sufferer or curious about what I’m posting about, if you are the former then welcome to the latest InfoPath blog, hopefully this will provide you with some insights into what I have been Read More...
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