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Comment on How to check if your InfoPath form is “dirty”? by alecpojidaev

alecpojidaev — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:23:30 +0000

Actually I don’t understand what is your problem well enough.

Comment on How to check if your InfoPath form is “dirty”? by dvn

dvn — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:14:06 +0000

I am glad to have found this article. I am having problem with the issue of allowing the user to update the web-compatible infopath form, can you give me some help? change the Postback settings for the control did not seem to work. Adding an Update Form button using Update Form Action did not work neither.
Thank you in advance.

Comment on Infopath codeless programming (walkthrough) 2 by alecpojidaev

alecpojidaev — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:17:16 +0000

Thats how working days are calculated. Monday and Friday are 2 working days so they have to be counted.

Comment on Infopath codeless programming (walkthrough) 2 by Saran

Saran — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:41:19 +0000

When i enter start date as Friday and End date as Monday then my field only calculates 2 days of my working day. Dont calculates the sat and sun. how can i perform this.. thnX Advance

Comment on About by Val

Val — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0000

That works perfectly — thanks!!!

The sum(.) in the formula was automatically generated. I built the formula thru point-and-click rather than writing the XPath expression. When I added the sum() function and selected the YearlyCost field, the formula editor replaced YearlyCost with a ‘.’ I figured it knew what it was doing, so I left it alone. I see I need to pay close attention to what underlying XPath is being generated.

Thanks very much for the help! I’ll update my question on StackOverflow with your answer, so others can benefit from it, and link to your site. Thanks again!

- Val

Comment on About by alecpojidaev

alecpojidaev — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:23:55 +0000

You have couple problems I was able to pinpoint. The first is you checked checkbox “Update this value when resul of the formula is recalculated” on YearlyCost field. Its one time operation so you dont want to recalculate it.

The second problem is formula itself. The result of your formula
../../../my:TotalCost – sum(.)
is absolutly the same as
../../../my:TotalCost – .
sum() function have no sence in that context.

If I understand your intention correct the right formula should be:
../../../my:TotalCost – sum(../../my:FY/my:YearlyCost)

Comment on About by Val

Val — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:16:46 +0000

Alec,
Thanks very much for the offer! I’ve posted the form at

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Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing it; feel free to email me any questions you may have about how it’s supposed to work or what I’m trying to accomplish.

Regards,

Val

Comment on About by alecpojidaev

alecpojidaev — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:26:28 +0000

I could look into your problem if you find a way to share your form somewhere.

Comment on About by Val

Val — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:07:13 +0000

Alec,
I’m hunting for clues on how to solve an infopath problem and came across you blog full of interesting and powerful techniques; you obviously know the tool quite well. If you have some time, I wonder if you’d care to look at my problem and comment on it at

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1590703/how-to-pre-populate-a-summed-field-in-an-infopath-repeating-table

It’s not getting much love over there; not many infopath experts, I guess.

Any help appreciated — thanks!

Comment on A mutually exclusive check box (radio button) in a repeating section by Sun

Sun — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:19:54 +0000

The Count(….) worked =D

Thanks again