I’m a kind of contradictional developer. I want to do as much in SharePoint without having to write code. There is a lot you can do before you need to call a (often hard to find and expensive) SharePoint developer.
Last I needed to modify an existing InfoPath form. They needed a simple conditional rule to validate an entry in the form. A first sight this seemed to be an easy job but then I noticed that InfoPath does not accept grouped conditions in the validation rules.
I needed something like this:
A field is invalid when:
(Field A = “valueA” OR Field B = “valueB”) AND Field C is blank
When you build this in InfoPath you can only do this:
But I needed this:
I found this clever workaround:
I used and expression with the contains function. The expression checks if the keyword (a concatenation of possible values, like “valueAvalueB”) contains the selected value in the field. With this solution I do not need to group my conditions anymore.
Grouping conditional validation rules in InfoPath https://t.co/rexqjfA9Pr #SPums