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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / October 2005Learing drop down list
Hi all, Is it a way for the drop down list control to be filled by the user with values that aren't in the list? And to add the new value to the existing list? Thanks in advance Hi, You won't be able to do it if you enter the list manually. Instead you would need to bind your drop-down to a secondary Dom in your form (add a data connection from an outside xml document that you designed yourself and that contain initial entries for your drop-down). Then you provide an interface for users to access and maintain that xml document. Hope hat it helps. Regards, Franck Dauché > Hi all, > Is it a way for the drop down list control to be filled by the user with > values that aren't in the list? And to add the new value to the existing list? > Thanks in advance Thanks a lot Frank, I'm a newbie to xml, can you guide me on how to create the xml scheme (structure) and how to bind it to the dropdown control? ( or i need to create a new one?) Thanks again :) > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > values that aren't in the list? And to add the new value to the existing list? > > Thanks in advance Hi, You can do this by creating another InfoPath form with a repeating table on it and 2 fields: ID and Description. You can run that form, enter a series of items that you want to show in your drop-down. Then you just save the XML output. That is one of the strength of IP, you can generate xml easily. Next, you add a data connection in your main IP document from the xml output generated above: Tools \ Data Connection \ Add \ Receive data \ xml document. Hope that it helps. Regards, Franck Dauché > Thanks a lot Frank, > I'm a newbie to xml, can you guide me on how to create the xml scheme [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > values that aren't in the list? And to add the new value to the existing list? > > > Thanks in advance |
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