SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Creating a SharePoint list to provide a drop-down menu data to InfoPath

InfoPath can use data from SharePoint and other sources, such as web services, to populate choices in data-driven controls such as drop-down menus. In this recipe, we will create a simple SharePoint list to provide data to InfoPath for the next recipe, adding a drop-down menu to InfoPath using SharePoint list data.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create our SharePoint list:

1. Navigate to the SharePoint site in your preferred web browser.
2. From the Settings menu, select Site contents.
3. Select Add an app and then click on Custom List.
4. Provide a name such as Categories for the custom list in the Name field.
5. Select the newly created list on the Site contents page.
6. Add new items to the ...