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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / April 2006Disable a repeating section
Hello, I have an unusual problem. I need to disable the repeating functionality of a repeating section. I was given an xml schema that I have to work from and cannot break. It looks something like this: Projects (group) ---Project (repeating group) ---field1 ---field2 ---field3 ---field4 (client number) ---Tasks (group) ------Task (repeating group) ------field4 ------field5 ------field6 I have an area at the top of the form to input values for field1-3, then have a separate area for the repeating projects' task's fields (a repeating task table in a repeating project section). They both are automatically repeating sections because they were predefined that way in the XML schema. So there are multiple projects with multiple tasks inside. The problem is that all project information is the same (field1-3) for each repeating project, I don't want it to repeat onscreen (but it should repeat in the data structure using the same values that the user inputted). I don't know if this complicates things, but I do have one field (client number) that changes with each project, it is embedded in the project repeating section which also contains the task repeating table. It's a strange request and what I'm being asked from the business side isn't matching what I have to work with from the IT architecture side. Thanks in advance. Anthony If I understand correctly what you want, you can do this with Default Values. Open the Data Source task pane, and go to those 3 fields you want populated, but don't want to show in the repeating table. Give them a default value by pointing them to the fields at the top of the screen. Make sure the check box is selected which will update them if the value changes. This way the fields will auto-populate with the values of the fields at the top of the screen and you don't need to show them in the repeating table. Hope this helps.  SignatureGreg Collins [InfoPath MVP] Visit http://www.InfoPathDev.com Hello, I have an unusual problem. I need to disable the repeating functionality of a repeating section. I was given an xml schema that I have to work from and cannot break. It looks something like this: Projects (group) ---Project (repeating group) ---field1 ---field2 ---field3 ---field4 (client number) ---Tasks (group) ------Task (repeating group) ------field4 ------field5 ------field6 I have an area at the top of the form to input values for field1-3, then have a separate area for the repeating projects' task's fields (a repeating task table in a repeating project section). They both are automatically repeating sections because they were predefined that way in the XML schema. So there are multiple projects with multiple tasks inside. The problem is that all project information is the same (field1-3) for each repeating project, I don't want it to repeat onscreen (but it should repeat in the data structure using the same values that the user inputted). I don't know if this complicates things, but I do have one field (client number) that changes with each project, it is embedded in the project repeating section which also contains the task repeating table. It's a strange request and what I'm being asked from the business side isn't matching what I have to work with from the IT architecture side. Thanks in advance. Anthony |
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