Rules not applied

[CW]

Is there a way to not have the built-in Infopath dialogue box appear
stating "Not all rules were applied" as an error trap? I thought I had
accomplished this task and made it a bit more, intuitive by using rules
on a submit buton with conditions that a certain field "in not blank".

 

[Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]]

Rules cannot handle error conditions, offline scenarios, Web service issues, etc. Because of this I prefer using code for submitting.

 

[CW]

Thanks Greg. Yes I agree. One caveat.

I'm customiing a sample (I guess that doesn't really matter though) and
got around the rules question ok. What I've opted for is using a
separate rule and expression when a certain field is blank. Easy enough
to add. I want totake it further and use an expression dialog so I set
up:

concat("The following fields need to be completed:",contains(Method[. =
""], Method[. != ""]))

What I get is a true or false, easy enough, but I want to replace an
argument with a string so for example; if the field Method is blank,
return the string "Method" so the expression box would return: The
following fields need to be completed: Method.

I've done this sort of thing very easy in VBA but my form has defaulted
to JS and that is like Venuvian to me. Besides this is a rule not an
"afterupdate" of a field.

It's easy to do in Excel such as =If(arg1, arg2, expression).

Any ideas? I've searched here and MS groups and get the feeling this
relatively benign and easy task is not able to be accomplished in the
GUI portion of Infopath.

By the way, your earlier quick response was much appreciated.

CW

 

[Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP]]

Unfortunately XPath has no concept of "if/then/else". To do this, you need to use a series of rules with conditions, or better, use code.

 

[CW]

Yes. I would prefer to use code, it's cleaner and easier to follow
except that my form is currently in jscript and don't laugh but I hate
JS, I think it's too hard to read and write. I find VB, VB script etc
much more elegant. I suppose I could find a converter.

TX again.