Pashman's InfoPath Goldmine

Check out this location. Seems to be pretty active http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?lang=en&cr=US&dg=microsoft.public.infopath . Some people who I'm in contact with are very diligent about responding to questions posted...

Folks, I'm hearing a lot of issues about people having trouble getting InfoPath 2007 forms published to Forms Services on MOSS 2007 to run well. People complain that the rendering and roundtripping operations just take too darn long. There is some...

This code sample documents a block of VB.Net code I had to write recently for retrieving a block of data from a secondary datasource, and then copying that data into a child table of a dataset in the main datasource. I've copied it over as is for my benefit...

VB.NET and probably the other managed code languages uses a new syntax for specifying nodes and traversing XML in a form. I don't claim to have a firm grasp on this, I only know what works. Let's say you've got a field in your form whose value you set...

Folks, Just starting to get involved in dealing with VB.NET and VSTA in InfoPath 2007. A lot of what I've taken for granted in InfoPath 2003 and JScript no longer applies. Take Custom Task Panes for example. A neat idea, and super-useful. Doesn't work...

From http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms496491.aspx . This basically provides a control for GAL selection that supercedes my custom code that appears earlier in this blog. From what I'm reading, this is strictly a Forms Services thing from MOSS...

Recent request from a customer: What we need to be able to do is to somehow programmatically access, in infopath, the sharepoint form library folder name from which the form was opened. Cool way to get this done (from Scott Heim's inexhaustible...

Just posted on using C# and the new object model in InfoPath 2007 to retrieve the current user. I have 3 other posts that deal with this issue as well. Believe it or not, the product team has actually addressed this in with a no code solution in InfoPath...

Folks, Got a little code sample from a fellow watcher of Pashman's Goldmine (thanks Huseyin) on how to retreive the username of the current user via C# code. Since all code samples are useful, I've posted it below: public void FormEvents_Loading...

Application.XDocuments.NewFromSolution(urlToXsnFile) or Application.XDocuments.Open(urlToXmlFile) Your form will need to require full trust in order to use either of these OM methods. Keep it simple, right? Tim

Folks, Don't claim to understand this 100%, but I do know it works. Put this formula inside a formula dialog box for an expression box on your form, and when you invoke it it'll show you the current solution version - without having to write code!...

Hey folks, Like many of you, I'm being dragged into the land of managed code in order to achieve things that I've had oodles of JScript code samples to do for a long time. The InfoPath Toolkit for VS.NET allows you to write code in either VB or C#;...

Folks, Had an issue recently where a user of one of my solutions had pretty terrible bandwidth to the SQL server where they needed to submit data. The default timeout value on submits is 30 seconds. As it turn out, the default for queries too is 30...

Quick update to this post (6/7/2007). Saw this article http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa945450(VS.80).aspx which is pretty comprehensive on this topic. Worth a read. Folks, Getting tired of waiting for a list to be published, so will start...

Folks, I had to skill up recently on the use of digital signatures in InfoPath, and this webcast I found is pretty amazing. I had no idea how rich the support in InfoPath for digital signatures was, and this webcast goes into *deep* detail. I found...

Simple question, simple answer. Let's say you want to tell a user what version of the solution they are using. Technically the way the InfoPath works they don't need to worry about that, but let's just say you wanted to tell them. The following code...

Folks, I have done a lot of work with making InfoPath live up to it's promise of providing an offline experience. That promise becomes a lot harder to fulfill when you are querying large datasets in your form to populate one dropdown lists or more...

Hi Everybody, Hey sometimes you get a long form that requires you to do a lot of scrolling around to get to to the different sections. I use a lot of tricks with views and/or conditionally hidden sections to make things look like they all fit on one...

Folks, Although I think it severely impairs the value proposition of using InfoPath, I get asked a lot how a company can deploy InfoPath to every desktop and yet control who has the ability to build and post new forms. It turns out that it's pretty...

Folks, Ran into a sticky issue the other day where a customer wanted a drop down list to be bound to a table (they put it as enforced referential integrity), but wanted to allow the users the ability to add values to the dropdown on the fly. The idea...

Folks, In this post http://blogs.msdn.com/timpash/archive/2005/11/03/Alternate_Ways_To_Send_Mail.aspx I was a bit lax in getting the novice to a 100% solution. What I left out is that most often a user is going to want to pluck values out of the form...

Folks, Been a little remiss in posting for a while. Been busy! In any case, I've encountered some nuances about interacting with BizTalk that I'd like to share. I often talk about how BizTalk and InfoPath are perfect bedfellows in that they are both...

Ok, so it's easy to send an e-mail, post to a web service or post to a WSS/SPS Form Library using the canned data connections. That's all fine and well. It's not easy however to push a file to a file directory, either locally or to a file share somewhere...

Folks, Some of you may notice at some point that you can have nice granularity of security settings in WSS/Portal on custom lists. If you look you'll see that you can you allow people to add items but not delete, not see other's people's postings,...

I've been asked multiple times on how to get a guaranteed unique value for a field in a form. It normally comes up in the context of a tracking id, or a request id - something that you know will be unique and will be a way to recall that entry at some...