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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Bind a InfoPath dropdown with SharePoint List

Suppose you have a requirement, you need to bind SharePoint list data to dropdown in Infopath. Simply you want to use SharePoint list as your data source for Infopath dropdown list. Follow below steps with given screen shot.

Step 1: Open Microsoft InfoPath 2010, Click on SharePoint List from Available Form Template, as shown in Below screen shot.
infopath dropdown bind
Step 2: Give url of your SharePoint web application where your list is available.
sharepoint list and infopath
Step 3: Select "Customize an existing SharePoint list" option, and choose your list, click next.
sharepoint list as data source
Step 4: Click Finish as per below screen shot.
bind infopath dropdown
Step 5: Drag a dropdown list on new form as shown in below image.
infopath dropdown list
Step 6: Select "Look up choices from a SharePoint list" option. Select your list and field which you are going to bind.
infopath form data connection
Step 7: Run your form by pressing F5 and you will see the result like this.
infopath submit form

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