Save the Date! Using Horizontal Repeating Sections

re: Save the Date! Using Horizontal Repeating Sections

infopath1 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:42:39 GMT

To HazenHills: thank you for reporting the issue. We are aware of this limitation; unfortunately, there is no good way to preserve the layout of this kind of form in the Outlook preview pane. One workaround would be to place the horizontal repeating section into a scrolling region: this will cut off everything outside of the borders of the scrolling region. Alternatively, you can attach the form XML with the email message, and the user will be able to see the correct layout by double-clicking on the email message.

- Alex

re: Save the Date! Using Horizontal Repeating Sections

HazenHills — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:55:05 GMT

We encountered an issue with horizontal repeating controls not wrapping in a particular case.

If you send the form in email and include a static copy of the form (rather than dynamic) the generated screen shot doesn't wrap the horizontal control, but rather stretches it out to infinity on the right.

The form renders fine interactively inside a table of specified width. It's only when emailing a static copy of the form that we've encountered the problem.

InfoPath 2007 BTR2

re: Save the Date! Using Horizontal Repeating Sections

infopath1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:24:27 GMT

Glad to hear you can use the horizontal repeating table!

Also thanks for the feedback on the switching between task panes. We're aware this can be cumbersome and are already looking at ways to make this easier in future versions.

- Ned

re: Save the Date! Using Horizontal Repeating Sections

JnJnBoo — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:23:45 GMT

Love the idea of a horizontal repeating table - could have used this in previous projects.

One thing - I intensely dislike have to click twice to move from Views to Data Source or Controls ect. in the sidebar. I really see Design Checker and Publish Form Template as being in a different place, and used less often. It appears these additions are the reason for the design change - is this correct?