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GaryM - 11 Nov 2005 13:35 GMT

Help. I need to link data fields in a number of related forms that are not
created from a database. I want users to launch the new forms from a summary
form and have some (not all) of the fields in the summary form duplicated in
the new forms. This was originally one very large and slow form with multiple
views that is being split up into more manageable chunks. Using the summary
form xml as a data connection may work but users can save the summary form
with different names.
Any ideas?

Gary

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Franck Dauché - 11 Nov 2005 15:23 GMT

Hi Gary,

Let's say you have 3 small templates (xsn), generating 3 xml outputs. You
can create a summary template where the 3 xml outputs are secondary data
sources. This way, you can read values in these secondary DOMs and
pre-populate your main DOM from them.

Hope that it helps.

Regards,

Franck Dauché

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GaryM - 15 Nov 2005 15:51 GMT

Hi Franck

I need it to work the other way round. The smaller forms need to be
populated from the summary form. The summary form is probably the wrong name
for it as it is actually the Project Control form.

Thanks

Gary

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Franck Dauché - 15 Nov 2005 17:47 GMT

Hi Gary,

The solution would still be the same. The xml output of the summary form
can be used as a secondary data source to a series of smaller forms. You can
then extract data that you are interested in from the secondary DOM to
populate your primary DOM.

Does it make sense?

Regards,

Franck Dauché

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