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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / November 2007Getting display text in drop down list(browser enabled infopath f
Hi, I have an infopath form where I use a webservice to populate a dropdown list. I would like to know if there is a way for me to get the display text of the option chosen by the user. I can get hold of the value, but not the text. I am using C# code. All I need is this: the user makes a selection from the dropdown and submits the form. I need to know the display text of the option selected. The infopath form is browser enabled. Kindly suggest a solution. With Best Regards, Jayram. Use an XPath expression that contains a filter on the value that was selected from the drop-down list box and use this to retrieve the corresponding text by doing a lookup in the secondary data source that the drop-down is bound to. So: 1. Retrieve the secondary data source that the drop-down is bound to in code. 2. Use SelectSingleNode and an XPath expression to find the one record that contains the selected value; use an XPath filter for this. 3. Modify the XPath expression to include the node that corresponds to the text of the selected value, and retrieve its value. I know it's cryptic, so if you still do not understand how to do it, let me know and I'll schedule publishing a walkthrough on my website this coming weekend. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Hi, > I have an infopath form where I use a webservice to populate a dropdown [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > With Best Regards, > Jayram. Hi Wong, Thank you for this excellent and informative(atleast to me and hopefully to others as well) reply. I was able to use your pointers and get what I wanted. Thank you very much. But I will still request you to go ahead and post a walk through on your site. I am sure I will get pointers to better my code. Thank you, Jayram. > Use an XPath expression that contains a filter on the value that was selected > from the drop-down list box and use this to retrieve the corresponding text [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > With Best Regards, > > Jayram. No worries. And well done! Since you did solve it yourself, I won't give the walkthrough a high priority, so may eventually write and publish it, but perhaps not this weekend. --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton > Hi Wong, > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > With Best Regards, > > > Jayram. Hi Guys, I need to do the same thing except that I have to do it all in the form, no code involved. I actually need to find out the display value of a drop down and use it as File Name when submitting the form to a document library. So far I get the value but not the display value. How do I do this without writing any C# code? Regards, Mario > No worries. And well done! Since you did solve it yourself, I won't give the > walkthrough a high priority, so may eventually write and publish it, but [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > > > With Best Regards, > > > > Jayram. |
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