Ben Walters InfoPath MVP - All Comments

re: SharePoint Saturday Melbourne! 14th November

Damien — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:06:12 GMT

Sounds interesting. Not long now!

re: Can't find your SMTP server in Vista?

blah — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:54:32 GMT

It sucks! freesmtp only allows 10 emails a day!!!!!!!!!!

re: Using InfoPath 2010 Today

Jeremy Thake — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:31:13 GMT

Mate, looks like your hosting this on silverlight.live.com, can you provide a link to download the WMV rather than stream it? might want to tweet when u've done this ;-)

re: Get your wireless working in Win 2008 R2

MDF — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:16:30 GMT

Worked like a charm.

Thanks Bro.

re: Can't find your SMTP server in Vista?

doubleD40 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:29:25 GMT

I'm really happy to find this! I have an SQL Server that needs to send notifications out. Thanks Ben

re: My Favourite Windows 7 Features

mike — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:33:08 GMT

Native VHD Support

This is a feature that will have developers and presenters cheering along, while attaching a VHD doesn’t offer a huge gain as far as features go, it’s the ability to boot from a VHD that has me really excited. The prospect of being able to boot into a number of different Demo/development machines as needed makes this a killer feature

Ben, keep in mind, this feature is available only for Enterprise and Ultimate editions.

re: my previuos post

Terry Boulter — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:17:51 GMT

Sorry for wasting anyone's time who tried to understand earlier post - problem now resolved - error on my part. It's the use of current() that I hadn't quite got correct.

re: SharePoint Timer Service issues when upgrading to SP2

Ben Walters — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:14:01 GMT

Hey Jim,

Can't say I saw that at all sorry, has the advanced search page been cusbomised at all?

Drop down lists & repeating sections

Terry Boulter — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:05:42 GMT

Ben,

Hope you can help as I'm a bit stuck!!

I'm fairly ok at InfoPath supported by jscript etc. I've developed a form that has repeating sections which basically ask questions with dropdown list answers. The list is populated from an external xml file (created, managed & maintained as another Ip form) The repeating section (in the main form) is constructed on a button command. the repeating section has a variable called counter with a corresponding variable in the external file. On this basis I populate the repeating section dropdown (from a repeating table in the external file) using something like :-

externaldatasource/answers[local counter = external counter]

answers is what appears in the local dropdown list.

This nearly works fine, however, if there's an answer in section[2] that appears in section[1] then section[1] data is displayed.

Sorry please bear with me! for example if section[1] (local)dropdown (popultated from external xml) has Yes & No & section[2] has Yes & Maybe - then the Maybe is ok i.e. I can reliably get the other external repeating table data, but the Yes answer returns the associated data relating to section[1]. It's feels like the data is cached in someway.

Local

<questiondata> - repeating

counter

question

Answer - string

desirability - attribute of answer

External

<data> - repeating

counter (cut across from external using jscript on button command)

question

<Answers> - repeating

Answer

Desirability

In essence the external holds the question, the possible answers and corresponding desirability that i want the local file to read.

I understand .not, preceding, forward sibling etc, using none of which seem suitable. It's like I want to purge any cached data on the reading of data in each local section.

Hope this understandable/reproducable and fixable. I've searched forums etc. to no avail. - you fix this and i'll arrange for Aus to win the Ashes!

terryboulter@aol.com

re: SharePoint Timer Service issues when upgrading to SP2

Jim — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:16:37 GMT

Did you face any issues with the OOB Advanced search web-part after installing Sp2. In my case Contains" and "Does not contain" drop down list items in property restrictions area just vanishes!!!

re: Using the Content Query Web part on MySite

Edith — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:35:23 GMT

thanks for the tip!

re: Contact Selector the Good and the Bad

Alana — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:09:06 GMT

Hi Ben,

I just finished a new post which provides a no code solution to validating the contact selector.

www.myriadtech.com.au/.../Post.aspx

re: Can't find your SMTP server in Vista?

Pratik — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:31:39 GMT

This is a nice tool.. However, can u please guide me through how to configure the freesmtp server.. this is bcoz even after installing it, I am unable to send mails using localhost

Thanks,

Pratik

re: SharePoint Saturday Sydney Registrations now open

Gerardo Diaz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:13:08 GMT

I will organise my ticket to Sydney tonight

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re: SharePoint Saturday Sydney Registrations now open

GERARDO DIAZ — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:11:58 GMT

Thanks such a useful event. I will organise my flight booking tonight.

Gerardo Diaz

Applications Support Team

Main Roads Western Australia

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re: Get your wireless working in Win 2008 R2

Ahnee — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:09:38 GMT

Cool stuff buddy.

Took me four hours to try it but did a google search and your blog came up first.

In case anyone realizes this or not the Wireless LAN service is a defined "Feature" and not in services.msc where i was searching for it.

re: SharePoint 503 Service Unavailable Error

Clark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:53:01 GMT

Yep, bit by this too. And I didn't pick up that the App Pools weren't actually running until I read this post--so thanks. Guess I need to pay more attention to those IIS Manager app pool icons next time.

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Ben Walters — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:44:46 GMT

Hey Pieter, check this follow up post

msmvps.com/.../filtered-drop-down-lists-101-part-2.aspx

Cheers

Ben

Web Based Forms

Pieter Theron — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:25:01 GMT

Hi Ben,

can you please post a link to an example of how to use this in a web based form?

Thanks Pieter

re: SharePoint 503 Service Unavailable Error

Mohamed Hachem — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:17:50 GMT

503 is most of the time related to the app pool you may have changed identity password also make sure you can access the administration console