September 2004 - Posts
We have been receiving questions about problems deploying some InfoPath solutions created with the InfoPath 2003 Toolkit that call into script functions in a task pane from managed code. These solutions work on the developer's machine, but then fail when
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In a previous blog post we answered the question "What button was clicked?" when a Button control is inside a repeating context like a Repeating Section control. A similar situation has a slightly different answer that's worth calling out for those readers
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Keep hearing the buzz around Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 and want to learn more? Excited about the feature enhancements in InfoPath 2003 SP1 and want to really understand how to use them in your applications? Want to learn cool tips and tricks on how
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In Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, you can assign users to distinct categories, called user roles , which are based on job title or other criterion. InfoPath can perform custom actions that vary based on the current user role, such as switching views,
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Another question that we get asked a lot: I include a Repeating Section control in my form, containing a Button and a Text Box. At runtime, a user inserts 5 items. How do I know which Button was clicked so I can get to the Text Box’s value? That’s actually
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For some reason, the last week has been full of questions where the answer boils down to “use the current() function”. The current() function is an XSLT XPath function which returns the current node . You can read the full W3C Recommendation if you want
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This came up on an internal mailing list: We have a secondary data source that holds a list of entries; part of the data in the list - a name field - is used to populate the items in a listbox in the view. When the user selects an item in the list, I
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Two new articles have been posted to MSDN about digitally signing data in InfoPath 2003 SP1. The first article, Digitally Signing Data in InfoPath 2003 , provides details about how to configure InfoPath forms for digitally signing data, including information
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A new article is up on MSDN about working with XML schemas in InfoPath. Although InfoPath 2003 has great support for the W3C XML Schema ("XSD") specification - and even better support with higher performance in SP1 - there are a few constructs that require
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CHM files are compiled Microsoft® HTML Help files suited for a wide range but mostly used as help files for applications. You can also use them inside the InfoPath task pane because they are URL accessible. There are many formats for the URLs as described
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