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[El-Eleimy]

Hello I am creating a form in InfoPath and some fields might be confusing and
needs explanation, I wonder if I can include comments with these controls
like in excel?? Or if there is a way for the user (filling the form) to ask
for help with a certain control then a text appears with an explanation of
what sort of data he should be filling in

Thanks in a dvance

 

[Josh Bertsch [MSFT]]

Absolutely. There are several ways you can accomplish this depending on how
you want it to look.

First:
You could insert an 'Optional Section'. In the optional section you could
have your help text and set the section to be closed by default and insert
text in the properties dialog that would entice the user to open it for
help.

Second:
Insert a checkbox; this will be what your users clicks on if they need help.
Insert an Expression Box that holds all of your help text. Go to the
Expression Box properties and the display tab. Click on the Conditional
Formatting. Insert a clause that states that when the checkbox is equal to
"false", hide the control.

Third:
You could insert a button and label it "help". Go to the properties dialog
of the button and set a rule, such that when the button is clicked, you
"Show dialog box expression". That expression would be your help.

Fourth:
You could write script such that your help would be in a task pane in the
solution and when a user clicks on a field, the your task pane would show
what the user needed to enter.

Those are just a few ideas. Hope that gets you started in the right
direction.

--josh bertsch

 

[El-Eleimy]

Hello josh, thank you so much for your reply

the fourth solutions is the best match with how i expect my form to look
like (Fourth:
You could write script such that your help would be in a task pane in the
solution and when a user clicks on a field, the your task pane would show
what the user needed to enter.)

however i am a recent user of info path and need some more explaination on
how to do that, if you can provide steps that will be super
thank you again

 

[Josh Bertsch [MSFT]]

Greg Collins posted a guide on how to do this at his site:
http://www.infopathdev.com/examples/

--josh bertsch