Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Designing Master/Detail Forms

Master/detail forms are one of the most useful features added by SP-1. The purpose of master/detail forms is to improve the efficiency of forms that work with large amounts of data, such as lists of products, orders, employees, and the like. InfoPath’s master/detail feature automatically adds a repeating table and repeating section to a form. The repeating table (master) displays a few important fields of a repeating group and, by default, the repeating section (detail) shows all group fields. The following two sections describe how to create a master/detail form from a single repeating group and from two related repeating groups linked by a key field value.

Creating a Master/Detail Form Bound to a Single Repeating ...