Hello all,
I am a newbie to InfoPath and am working on a visual demonstration of
capabilities of this program and SharePoint. One of the areas I am
working on now is having a list in SP that is used as a dropdown list
in an InfoPath form. That was easy but I want to go to another level.
Background: Using the OFFSET command and named ranges I have used
Excel to create dropdowns based on a prior selection. For example, if
I select LEGAL Department, I will only see the divisions in the LEGAL
Department not everything in the entire company. Then I can select
only the offices in a specific division in the LEGAL Department. Does
this make sense? This was done for a purchase requisition form.
I would like to do the same with InfoPath, having four selections
(or levels): Department, Office, Division, and Branch. Each selection
would limit the choices available based on the prior entry. Any ideas
how to best set this up as a list in SharePoint, or the function
syntax necessary, or even a link to a site addressing this topic
appreciated.
Clay Fox - 15 Jan 2008 16:47 GMT
This is typically referred to as Cascading Dropdowns.
http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/06/Create-a-Cascading-List
-from-a-Flat-Data-Source.aspx
Here is a tutorial and there are many others on the site.

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> Hello all,
> I am a newbie to InfoPath and am working on a visual demonstration of
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> syntax necessary, or even a link to a site addressing this topic
> appreciated.