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September 2006 - Posts

Schema validation found non-datatype errors

Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 11:52 AM by bsandeman
Why Oh Why Oh Why.....does InfoPath produce this error and never tell you what field had this problem, I cannot fathom out what on earth the problem is...... argh! Added 3rd Oct..... Well, it went away after I deleted my form and assembly completely from Read More...
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Something useful

Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 3:52 AM by bsandeman
Well, this is something quite neat. I needed to give users the ability to select items from a list of 78000 items..... I was thinking about the best way to do this and came up with the following idea and it would seem that InfoPath is perhaps a bit more Read More...
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Multiple section types are not supported

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:06 AM by bsandeman
If you ever receive the error "Multiple section types are not supported" from either InfoPath Design Checker or when you try to upload your template to MOSS then you will probably find that you get very cross with InfoPath, at least I did!! Anyway, firstly Read More...
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Repeating Tables within Repeating Tables

Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 5:33 AM by bsandeman
It would seem that the bug that I found in Beta2 is still there in the tech refresh. Details of bug : Can still add child repeating lines even when the child repeating table has been disabled, but only in the web browser (InfoPath Forms Services); it Read More...
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XML Schemas Optional/Required

Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:18 AM by bsandeman
This is a useful article for finding out the difference between not required and Optional How To Article Read More...
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Read/Only Checkboxes

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 8:12 AM by bsandeman
Well now, these are not possible..... However.....It is possible to set a conditional formatting rule such that it always disables the control; basically makes it read only. Right click your checkbox and go to conditional formatting and add a new rule Read More...
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InfoPath Beta2 TR1 Fixes & Pain!

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 10:18 AM by bsandeman
Hello Well, I have now been using InfoPath 2007 Beta2 TR1 for close to a day and am now throughly depressed. We were hoping & praying for some extremely important bugs to be fixed so that we could get close to delivering on this project. Although some Read More...
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Pants!

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:39 AM by bsandeman
Well, first up InfoPath has clearly not really been changed much apart from the obvious Icon change! My most important hoped for (& prayed for) fix is that I would be able to access the new & old values of a field during the validating event, Read More...
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Beta2 TR

Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 4:02 AM by bsandeman
Well I have just installed it, I will be developing with it over the next few days and will post about it as and when I have found something out..... here goes............. Read More...
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Beta2 TR

Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:13 PM by bsandeman
is it really nearly here.... hmmmmm personally I won't be getting my hopes up until I've actually downloaded and installed the thing, but here's hoping..... Documentation regarding B2TR Read More...
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Those wacky validating events

Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 4:40 AM by bsandeman
Now then, I have decided that the only way to solve the issue of repeated events and subsequent non-repeated events that I ended up with yesterday is to check the value of the field before continuing to execute the validating function such that if it Read More...
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