Ben Walters InfoPath MVP - All Comments

re: Update

Alex — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:41:46 GMT

Good Luck with the new role Ben.

Ping me a text message when the little un arrives. :)

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Ben Walters — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:29:38 GMT

Lori

The principal is still the same, however rather than filtering the results in a web service you will need to add code to the form to do the filtering for you.

If you have a large result set potentially comming back it might be best to use a Web Service as an intemediate step to reduce the data being returned.

Hope this helps

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Lori — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:49:52 GMT

Does anyone know how to filter a drop down list when the data is coming from a secondary source?

re: Missing Virtual PC Console

Bob — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:42:49 GMT

As Mike said, my x64 Vista had them located at "c:\users\<logon name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Virtual PC". This had been plaguing me for some time and this fixed it in 2 minutes. Wished I would have looked for a solution earlier.

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Ben Walters — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:00:10 GMT

Hey Patrice,

The best way to clear your previously selected options, is to use a rule on your drop down list that when fired clears any cascading drop down lists.

If you need more details on how to this feel free to let me know

Cheers,

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Ben Walters — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:58:39 GMT

Hey Jon,

InfoPath 2003 doesn't provide the "Display only Unique entries" feature. With this in mind you will need to structure your data similar to the following

<Makes>

<Make>Holden</Make>

<Make>Porche</Make>

</Makes>

<Model make="Ford">Focus<Model>

<Model make="Porche">Boxter<Model>

<Model make="Holden">Astra<Model>

</Models>

<Color make="Holden" model="Astra">Silver</Color>

<Color make="Porche" model="Boxter">Black</Color>

</Colors>

</CarList>

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

Liam — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:10:08 GMT

FreeSMTP is a handy tool, however it only allows you to send a maximum of 10 emails per day :(

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Patrice — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:31:17 GMT

A problem here is that when a value is changed in a dropdown it doesn't remove (or clear) the options selected in the other boxes that are not values associated with the new value selected. So you would have to somehow clear the lists when values are changed. Or am I missing something here?

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101

Jon Taylor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:08:50 GMT

Can you be a bit more specific with the data structure required for InfoPath2003? You mention it with the unique name feature that's not available. I was able to get the first pull down to take unique names, but then I get all choices in the second field. I've tried filter make = make focusing on changing the left side object. I haven't found any combination (main or secondary) that works.

re: Filtered Drop Down Lists 101 Part 2

Lalitha — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:23:30 GMT

This is a great post. Could you please post the code required for dropdownlists changed events and the infopath form template?Thanks

re: Web Service Studio

Antonio García Fuentes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:26:19 GMT

Web Service Studio

re: SharePoint Server 2007 Anonymous Access Gotcha!

Tim Wragg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:16:12 GMT

Hey Benny, good post but are you sure you can't have Windows auth with FBA?

I've rolled it out several times and always kept Windows auth on with DB with the FBA front end.

I believe Sharepoint doesnt really 'passthrough' the users login to access the content DB - MS only say that for the licensing :)

- Once your done with your demo you can present it at MOSSIG :).

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

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Evangelos — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:15:22 GMT

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

Isaakios — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:40:21 GMT

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

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

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

Samaras — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:17:53 GMT

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