Add Item To Dropdown List Box Populated By Secondary Data Source Ezack 10/28/2008 8:44:10 PM Hello, I need to add an item to a dropdown list box that is populated by a secondary data source (web service). I do not need to persist this value to the secondary data source. I only need it in the dropdown. It's basically an "Other" option. How can I do this? THanks, ezack

RE: Add Item To Dropdown List Box Populated By Secondary Data Source Swathi (GGK Tech) 10/29/2008 5:04:03 AM Hi, Create an xml in which it contains both web service data and the ‘other’ value. And get the values in to drop down by using this xml. -- Swathi Porandla http://www.ggktech.com "Ezack" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > I need to add an item to a dropdown list box that is populated by a > secondary data source (web service). I do not need to persist this value to > the secondary data source. I only need it in the dropdown. It's basically > an "Other" option. How can I do this? > > THanks, > ezack

RE: Add Item To Dropdown List Box Populated By Secondary Data Sour Ezack 10/29/2008 1:27:02 PM Can you clarify a little what you mean by this? How do I "create an xml"? Can I do this in InfoPath? -ezack "Swathi (GGK Tech)" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, > Create an xml in which it contains both web service data and the ‘other’ > value. And get the values in to drop down by using this xml. > > -- > Swathi Porandla > http://www.ggktech.com > > > > "Ezack" wrote: > > > Hello, > > I need to add an item to a dropdown list box that is populated by a > > secondary data source (web service). I do not need to persist this value to > > the secondary data source. I only need it in the dropdown. It's basically > > an "Other" option. How can I do this? > > > > THanks, > > ezack

RE: Add Item To Dropdown List Box Populated By Secondary Data Source S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton 11/1/2008 5:55:01 AM Since you cannot use rules to add an item to the drop-down list box (or the data source that is bound to the drop-down list box), you will have to write code to get this done. First you must retrieve a reference to the secondary data source using the DataSources object (see http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/infopath-basics-main-secondary-data-source.htm). Once you have a reference, you can copy the structure of an existing repeating node from the secondary data source, change the values to contain the values for the 'Other' item, and then add the new repeating node to the secondary data source. You can do something similar as described in this article: http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/4-way-programmatically-add-row-repeating-table.htm --- S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton http://www.bizsupportonline.net - InfoPath solutions, articles, and tutorials "Ezack" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello, > I need to add an item to a dropdown list box that is populated by a > secondary data source (web service). I do not need to persist this value to > the secondary data source. I only need it in the dropdown. It's basically > an "Other" option. How can I do this? > > THanks, > ezack

RE: Add Item To Dropdown List Box Populated By Secondary Data Sour Anuma(GGK Tech) 12/31/2008 7:02:10 AM Hi, Cna you verify below link to create xml file and bind it to Dropdown. http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/07/06/Create-a-Cascading-List-from-a-Flat-Data-Source.aspx -- Anuma Reddy http://www.GGKtech.com "Ezack" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Can you clarify a little what you mean by this? How do I "create an xml"? > Can I do this in InfoPath? > > -ezack > > "Swathi (GGK Tech)" wrote: > > > Hi, > > Create an xml in which it contains both web service data and the ‘other’ > > value. And get the values in to drop down by using this xml. > > > > -- > > Swathi Porandla > > http://www.ggktech.com > > > > > > > > "Ezack" wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I need to add an item to a dropdown list box that is populated by a > > > secondary data source (web service). I do not need to persist this value to > > > the secondary data source. I only need it in the dropdown. It's basically > > > an "Other" option. How can I do this? > > > > > > THanks, > > > ezack