Status Report Template

[Martin]

I need some help with the status report template. I noticed that once you
merge multiple Status Reports, it takes the "Authors" name and inserts it
into the new merged document. How does it do it?

Question 2: I would like to code the form to take the data out of the week
before and inserted it into the current form (by changing the date). The
only way I can do this is by merging. Is there another way?

 

[Clay Fox]

This can be done. A lot depends on how your form and solution is architected.

Are you using SharePoint? Is all of the data residing in individual forms?

It can range from changing the data on the original and doing a save as to
having a backend data source which stores the information and forms can
reference it how you would like.

If the data is in another form only, then the only way to get it is with a
merge which loads the data from multiple forms. The issue with merge is that
it is all or nothing and cannot really be controlled so in most cases does
not work very well.
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Thanks

Clay Fox

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[Martin]

Clay thanks for the email.
The form is acutally a template within Infopath. If you open inpath, you
can select a new template. I am trying to alter the Status Report template
and by this I mean change and add to the form. I am copying some of the text
boxes into a new section. When I run thru the process and saving it as an
*.xsn file and later publishing it.....When entering text into the text box
1, it also enters the same text into the copied text box (explained above).
I would like to code (per se) these text boxes to carry over to a newly
merged form and also (as it does now) associate the data with the Author
name. Does this make sense?