Vishal Monpara's Blog

You may have been to a situation where you have to conditionally hide the hyperlink control but unlike many other InfoPath controls, hyperlink controls does not support conditions. But there is a way to hide this control.

Here is my main data source.

IsVisible is a boolean field and Hyperlink is a string storing URL. I want to show the URL only when IsVisible is “true”.

Solution: Read more…

In InfoPath, Hyperlink control does not support filtering data when you select a field for repeating group. But you can definitely avert this limitation using a trick. For example, I have secondary data source “Data” as xml file with the following content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Settings>
    <Setting Name="Users" Value="2" />
    <Setting Name="WebAddress" Value="http://blog.vishalon.net" />
</Settings>

Now I want to get a hyperlink out of “Value” attribute of “Setting” node whose “Name” is “WebAddress”. Read more…