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November 2005 - Posts

Getting Just Unique Values in a Dropdown via XPATH

Something that has dogged me for a long time is the fact that when I'm doing cascading filtered dropdowns I've had to set up more than one data connection in order to accommodate the right behavior. I generally have a two column datasource coming from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:28 PM by timpash | 0 Comments
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How to Populate Current User in Form Without Needing a Code Signing Certificate

Folks, On my Blog I have two code samples that talk about pulling the Current User information based on the user's authentication to Active Directory and populating it into a form. One sample uses JScript and the other uses VB.Net. The JScript sample Read More...
Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 10:37 AM by timpash | 4 Comments
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Passing Command Line Parameters to a New Form

Got this question from a customer, and someone else came to my rescue with info on this post http://www.geekswithblogs.net/bpaddock/archive/2004/05/14/4907.aspx Basically this guy has figured out how to launch a new InfoPath form in code that is prepopulated Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:38 AM by timpash | 0 Comments

Switching Views After Merge

Here's a little code snippet on how to programmatically switch views. This example switches the view after a merge event on a Form Library, which is very cool. function XDocument::OnAfterImport(eventObj) { XDocument.View.SwitchView("ManagerView"); } This Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 4:51 PM by timpash | 0 Comments
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Using Data View Web Part to Limit What Entries Users See

Had a major epiphany today on how to handle a long standing issue. I love demoing InfoPath paired with a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Form Library. It's an awesome end to end solution that is cheap and easy to understand and set up. The problem has Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 7:47 PM by timpash | 0 Comments

Definitive Source for Code to Automate E-Mailing Forms

You will find that at some point you need to be a little more clever with sending mail than what InfoPath will allow you to do with just the GUI and dataconnections. A colleague of mine, Scott Heim, sent me an awesome little XSN file that had 4 buttons Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 3:21 PM by timpash | 2 Comments
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More Ways to Pull Info from Active Directory

Here is a posting from Tom Mata, a colleague of mine from Armstrong Industries, who found an alternate way to reach into AD and get information on the current logged on user (compare and contrast this to Lab 15 in the InfoPath Labs that I reference on Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:18 AM by timpash | 2 Comments
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