Chapter 7. Looking at Some Useful Controls and Techniques

The last chapter provided a good overview of what controls InfoPath provides for your forms, as well as some of the properties you can set for those controls using the property sheet. InfoPath supplies controls for all your needs, for both inputting and displaying data. While a number of these controls take more work to set up to use, they are worth the effort.

Besides the two buttons created by default (New Record and Run Query) when a new InfoPath form is created from a data source, InfoPath enables you use buttons for accomplishing whatever tasks you need. Controls such as the drop-down list boxes display data from additional data sources and control entry into fields. In this chapter you see how to use the controls just mentioned. You also see how to:

• Use formulas with controls to display data.

• Assign actions to buttons for performing tasks.

• Utilize drop-down list boxes, binding them to data sources.

• Use list boxes with other controls.