I needed to populate a drop down list with all the departments in my university (this is a field that is part of the user profile data.) Through my searching I stumbled through the UserProfileService.asmx and could not easily figure it out. I finally stumbled on a post from the famous Laura Rogers that explained a super easy way to … Continue Reading →

I needed to calculate the age of a person to run some validation rules on my form. This is how I did it: Create a Date Picker field (I named mine Birth Date) and place it on the form. Create a Number field (I named mine Age.) You don’t have to place it on the form, though you can initially … Continue Reading →

I have found that I often need to make sure that people attach a file before they can submit. InfoPath will not let you run a rule on attachment fields however there is a way around it: Create a single line of text field to use as the validation field (name is something like Attachment Validation). This field is also … Continue Reading →