A Practical Guide to SharePoint 2013

A Practical Guide to SharePoint 2013
A Practical Guide to SharePoint 2013 - Book by Saifullah Shafiq

Monday, August 18, 2008

InfoPath: Deleting all rows except the first one in repeating table

Code:
XPathNavigator Node = this.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:RepeatingGroup", this.NamespaceManager);
XPathNodeIterator node_2b_deleted = this.CreateNavigator().Select("/my:myFields/my:RepeatingGroup", NamespaceManager);
                                    if (node_2b_deleted.Count > 1)
                                    {
                                        string group = "/my:myFields/my:RepeatingGroup";
                                        XPathNavigator firstItem = Node.SelectSingleNode(groupResults + "[2]", NamespaceManager);
                                        XPathNavigator lastItem = Node.SelectSingleNode(groupResults + "[position()=last()]", NamespaceManager);
                                        firstItem.DeleteRange(lastItem);
                                        lastItem = null;
                                        firstItem = null;
                                    }
                                    node_2b_deleted = null;
Explanation:

We start with second row and delete all rows till the last row. Why will we leave the first row? It depends. There are scenarios where one required to re-populate the repeating table after deleting all rows. In that case, if there is no first row, it will not be possible to create a clone of the first row. We first create a clone of the first row and then populate the fields of the repeating row. This continues until all rows are populated with data and then we delete the master row to avoid creating a duplicate entry of the first row. So, first row is always required. You can blank out all fields in the first row and if the repeating table is in a section, hide the section which will give users the feeling that whole repeating table has been deleted.

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