Office Zealot

Now I don't know if this is intended functionality but if it is, it's slightly crazy! Through my continual exploration into the weirdness that is InfoPath 2007 I have discovered that Validating Events, function in a particularly odd way....  On form load, they are executed once. On field value change they are executed twice. although it ...

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 is the same as the previous value, the validating code is not executed. This seemed fairly ...

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 the XML schema so that there is a new field which gets set to hold the value ''true'' when the ...

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) does not allow you to sign the code with a certificate and therefore you cannot use an ...