sending repeating group data to infopath form

SharePoint - Workflow

shaun f

Hi All,

I'm stuck on trying to send repeating data to an infopath form from a workflow.

Heres what I'm trying to do:
The association form has a repeating group for contacts in various regions
ie: region name and approver.

The instantiation form needs to show a dropdown list of all the regions that were set up on association. This is how we determine the approver for the task that will get created.

My searches so far have been rather unpromising and I'm guessing the ItemMetadata.xml file doesnt support that sort of schema.

Anyone know of any good ideas on how to get this working

An idea I had was to send in a string and split it on the forms' loading event but I haven't got vs for apps yet. Also, this seems like a rather ugly way of doing it.


cheers
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Re: SharePoint - Workflow sending repeating group data to infopath form

Shaun Fuchs

in case anyone was wondering, i found this:

http://blogs.officezealot.com/jkremer/archive/2006/10/31/14298.aspx

I'm going to try and implement it and see how it goes.

ATM its a bit overkill for what I need but hopefully it works and i'll be able to send repeating data into the form.

It seems pretty wierd that sharepoint workflows aren't able to do this sort of thing out of the box as I would've thought this sort of requirement was pretty standard.


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Re: SharePoint - Workflow sending repeating group data to infopath form

Steven_Inter

I am also trying to do a similar thing. My Instantiation form has repeating fields that get passed across to the next Task Form.

I have had a look at the code Julie Kremer used, but can't seem to make any sense of it.

Were you able to get the repeating sections to pass from one InfoPath form to the Other. I am able to do this for a single stand alone field, but any repeating sections... no good.

Is there anything different that you need to do in the ItemMetadata.xml file currently the fields in there are basically the same for my normal fields as they are for the repeating ones: ows_blah=""

Do they need something more complex in here

any help would be much appreciated.


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Re: SharePoint - Workflow sending repeating group data to infopath form

Daniel Karlsson

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=1752656&SiteID=1&mode=1



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Re: SharePoint - Workflow sending repeating group data to infopath form

Steven_Inter

Still not sure how that helps me... concatinate what How do I return the Repeating Fields back to a Repeating Table in InfoPath forms if the field is concatinated

You used a Base64 field to carry the data... I can carry the data, my issue is returning that to the InfoPath form in the same manner as it was saved.

What you suggested, seems like I don't need the ItemMetadata.xml secondary source as the RowSet is limited, does that mean you don't use a secondary datasource...

Being new to SharePoint workflow, all I can use is the examples that Microsoft and webposts supply. Having not seen an example of anything other than using ItemMetadata.xml added as a secondary datasource, and then assigning the returned values from one InfoPath forms, to a TaskProperty Extended Property, it's hard to just picture it working without those pieces, based on the information you have provided.

If anyone has any examples or more detailed description of how this process is done with or without ItemMetadata.xml as a secondary datasource, it would be most helpful.

My first form has a section in it with Repeating Fields. Part of this section needs to be returned to the next form for the next user to add more details to it. This doesn't need to be in a repeating section (which I assume is what you are getting at Daniel, you are suggesting to create fields on this next page on the fly... but how ), but does need to be presented in some form of a table.

In my repeating section I have 5 fields (all textboxes), in the next form this section needs to have those 5 fields plus another 2 more for approval (radio buttons) and comments (textbox).

Not sure how to create elements (I assume by elements you mean create InfoPath fields), on the fly, in workflow code

Sean, if you resolved this issue somehow, I'd be very appreciative if you could give me advice as to how.

Thanks.


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