Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Populating Lists with Form Data

A major deterrent to populating lists from secondary data sources whose values are stored in template resource files is having to update the resource file to accommodate periodic changes. The alternative is linking to a data source on a server share, but this prevents disconnected users from accessing the network data source. One solution to this problem is to include the secondary data source as a separate repeating group in the XML data document, and to use the new capability in SP-1 to populate list boxes from the repeating group. This lets you add or delete items from list boxes bound to the group by adding a repeating section for the group to another view that’s dedicated to list box maintenance.

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