Comments on: Infopath Cascading Drop-Down (Screencast)

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:44:30 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!

this allows us to continue using the form with out chaning it or relinking.

By: Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:30:34 +0000

Lynn,
InfoPath will only pull in whatever’s listed in the default view of the list. I guess one thing you could do would be to go modify the default view, and in the view settings click “show all items without folders” in the Folders section. But then I still think there’s going to be some inherent limit to the number of items.
If you want to get any more advanced than that, then you’d have to start using a web service connection to get to the data… that’s dev stuff.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:25:19 +0000

I was wondering if you could provide some insight into SharePoint folders connection to InfoPath.

Here is what we are trying to accomplish. We have an InfoPath form that was built to look at a SharePoint list to create a drop box of choices. When we started getting a large number of items in the list we added a folder to the list to hold the new information. Thinking that we could then just continue the connection without issue however, InfoPath does not look into the folder and only pulls the items in the root of the list.

Do you know how to make it look into the folder or any other options/ideas that we could try?

The folder must be used to separate out the different years. In the past we created a new list for each year, which meant recreating the same views etc… Having to update multiple locations with user persmissions etc..

So to eliminate some of the maintenance and other issues we created a folder in the list.

By: Laura Rogers

Laura Rogers — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:32:04 +0000

Hey guys, quick update. I’d like to note that now with InfoPath 2010, you CAN do a filtered drop-down box in a browser-based form!!

By: David Jay

David Jay — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:30:51 +0000

Thanks Laura for this screencast. I’m an InfoPath newbie and have found it tremendously helpful.
My follow-up question is:
Once I have linked all my fields to an external data source and the user selects their two or three drop-downs, how can I create an expression to pull the value from a different field based on the selections?
e.g. in your Locations example, If I wanted to show the 2-letter state code for the state they have selected, what is the XPath expression to use to show the external data source field?

By: Neal

Neal — Sat, 01 May 2010 02:21:36 +0000

Laura,

(or anyone else who can help)

I have tried the above and I have a 4 step cascade that I want to make of Airport, Area, Equipment type, and Serial #. This is based on a Sharepoint List. The first two, Airport and Area, work great, but when I choose an equipment, there are options in the drop-down that don’t mesh with the prior choices. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

By: Martin L

Martin L — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:19:39 +0000

Thanks Laura that has saved me so much time. What other help videos have you done around Infopath?

By: Boris Gomiunik

Boris Gomiunik — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:05:13 +0000

Hey, cool post. Now there is almost an out-of the box solution to make these in SharePoint also. I’ve prepared a JavaScript – very simple to setup: http://spcd.codeplex.com

By: Robin Witcher

Robin Witcher — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:48:49 +0000

Another great presentation Laura!

Am working on going “paperless” at our college and will be using this over and over again in our forms! Having worked with FileMaker Pro and other database formats I knew there had to be a way with InfoPath and SharePoint to do this. Thanks for putting in easy to follow format!!

By: David

David — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:51:46 +0000

Do you have a similar solution for using an Infopath browser-based form?