Making the Contact Selector mandatory in an InfoPath form

By peter.stilgoe

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OOTB you cannot make the contact selector in a InfoPath form a mandatory field. However you can easily get round this by doing something like this.

- In my datasource I tend to create a hive called ‘Validation’ (This is where I hold or my extra fields I use to carry out my various validation routines)

- Create a field in here called something like ‘EmployeeName’ or whatever your preference but something logical / descriptive

- Now set this fields default value to equal the field you are actually using for your contact selector ie. EmployeeName = DisplayName

- Now as EmployeeName = DisplayName set a validation rule on ContactValidate so that it cannot be blank

Now your contact selector is a mandatory field.

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June 8th, 2010

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