InfoPath® with SharePoint® 2010 How-To

Chapter 17. Dynamically Populate a Repeating Table

In This Chapter:

• Set Up the Initial Form

• Create a Changed Event Method

• Create a Namespace Variable

• Access the Secondary Data Source

• Loop Through the Secondary Data Source

• Populate the Repeating Table

• Clear Previous Entries

• What Does the Final Solution Look Like?

This chapter covers the steps necessary to dynamically populate a repeating table. Displaying data from a data source in a repeating table is fairly straightforward using rules and filters. However, in this overall scenario, you need to populate a repeating group in your form with data from a data source. The data is dependent on another selection in your form.

Changing the selection in the form queries the data source ...