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		<title>Populating an Infopath dropdown using a specific Sharepoint list view</title>
		<link>http://www.petestilgoe.com/2010/07/populating-an-infopath-dropdown-using-a-specific-sharepoint-list-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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If you have a Sharepoint list containing multiple views, one view shows all approved items and another view shows all items that are pending approval.  You have an Infopath form where you have a dropdown control that you want to be populated with only &#8216;Approved&#8217; list items from your Sharepoint list.
If you create your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the Contact Selector mandatory in an InfoPath form</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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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 &#8216;Validation&#8217; (This is where I hold or my extra fields I use to carry out my various validation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to autopopulate Infopath fields using Sharepoint list data</title>
		<link>http://www.petestilgoe.com/2010/04/how-to-autopopulate-infopath-fields-using-sharepoint-list-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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1) Get your Sharepoint list into XML format 
2) Set up a data connection using the above XML file as your datasource
3) Now you need to configure rules and filters on your list box. Let&#8217;s say that your list box has customer name and you wish to fill a field with the customer phone. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>InfoPath Contact Selector &#8211; Limitations &amp; Workarounds &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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The contact selector available in InfoPath is a very useful control but has some pretty big feature limitations which will hopefully be rectified in Sharepoint 2010 / InfoPath 2010 but I havent had time to check yet.
How to make the InfoPath contact selector mandatory &#8211; http://www.myriadtech.com.au/blog/Alana/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=16
Limit the number of names a user can enter into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to auto populate InfoPath forms using the people picker</title>
		<link>http://www.petestilgoe.com/2010/01/how-to-auto-populate-infopath-forms-using-the-people-picker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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Step 1:Add the Contact Selector control to InfoPath &#8211; this only has to be done once within InfoPath, then it will be available for future forms.
1. From the Controls task pane, click on &#8220;Add or Remove Custom Controls&#8230;&#8221; then click Add.
2. Select &#8220;ActiveX Control&#8221; then click Next.
3. Locate &#8220;Contact Selector&#8221; in the list, select it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Form View when configuring session state for InfoPath Forms Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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You can configure InfoPath Forms Services to use the Session State Service (the default option) or Form View to control how user sessions are managed. When you configure InfoPath Forms Services to use the Session State Service, all browser sessions are maintained on the SQL Server database corresponding with the Shared Services Provider (SSP) associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto populate your InfoPath form with the current user name</title>
		<link>http://www.petestilgoe.com/2009/09/auto-populate-your-infopath-form-with-the-current-user-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter.stilgoe</dc:creator>
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You want to a user file in your InfoPath form to auto populate with the current user who is logged on, follow these steps:
1) Create a new form by Designing a New Form Template 
2)Choose blank form 
3) Add a text box to the form (Field1) 
4) Go to Tools &#124; Form Options 
5) Go [...]]]></description>
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