Conditional Movement of Sections

[scotia100]

Is it possible to determine the position of a section on the print view based
on answers to form questions? I'm preparing a quoting form and if an element
is selected it should appear in the body of the final proposal. If not
selected, I'd like to see it at the end of the proposal.

If, as I suspect, this is not possible, is there a way to copy controls then
change the binding and field names? My solution to the above is to duplicate
the fields and then use suppress functions to control where they appear. The
problem is I have hundreds of fields with defaults settings and formatting
and would like to copy these rather than create new ones.

If this makes sense, I would appreciate your advice guys.

Scotia

 

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

Is it possible to determine the position of a section on the print view based
on answers to form questions? I'm preparing a quoting form and if an element
is selected it should appear in the body of the final proposal. If not
selected, I'd like to see it at the end of the proposal.

If, as I suspect, this is not possible, is there a way to copy controls then
change the binding and field names? My solution to the above is to duplicate
the fields and then use suppress functions to control where they appear. The
problem is I have hundreds of fields with defaults settings and formatting
and would like to copy these rather than create new ones.

If this makes sense, I would appreciate your advice guys.

Scotia

Scotia,

Can you explain how the final proposal relates to the quoting form? Am
I correct in assuming that they are (or you hope they will be?) both
in InfoPath?

Your suggested approach of copying controls and then using conditional
formatting to hide or display duplicates *might* work. But I suspect
that you would be likely to get informational "!" icons in many
controls if you do what I think you intend to do.

I would suggest that you try out your intended approach and check
whether the user (in the final proposal) is getting
warning/informational icons displayed. If so, then that cosmetic
problem might make your approach undesirable.

I suspect that creating the form you envisage will be tedious.
Maintenance of the form could be a bit of a nightmare.

A more elegant way would be to use custom XSLT and predicates. I think
that should be possible.

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath

 

[scotia100]

Andrew,

Thanks for your help. I tend to agree that the process is pretty tedious but
I am resigned to my fate. I'm not concerned about the '!' symbols and
unfortunately custom XSLT is out of my league so my options are rather
restricted.

Thanks anyway.