Referencing XML data within the form

[albert_clawson]

When I view the XML source of my form I see the following lines:

      <desc>
         <text name="version">1.1</text>
         <text name="creator">Al Clawson</text>
         <text name="issued">2/3/2011</text>
         <text name="created">2/1/2011</text>
      </desc>

There is any way I can refer to these strings in calculated fields?  Specifically I want a small text field in the footer that displays the version of the form being used at the moment.

[kingphysh · Accepted solution]

Looking at the XML, the logical reference is: form1.desc.version

form1.desc.version               //FormCalc it works!

[kingphysh]

this = form1.desc.version;   //JavaScript also!

[albert_clawson]

And in today's lesson I also learned that if your form name has a hypen in it then the script

txtFooter = concat("this is version ", form-name.desc.version)

will drop the "-name" and say that "form" is an invalid accessor.  Everything else work work just fine, and changing the - to a _ fixes the problem, but still.....

[kingphysh]

I believe "form" is a reserved word

[albert_clawson]

I tried it with a couple of words after the "-" and it is something about that character that causes it to protest.

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi,

The hyphen can't be used in a variable name in JavaScript, but if you want one in your form name then you can reference the version metadata value with

the xfa.resolveNode method

So;

txtFooter = concat("this is version ", xfa.resolveNode("form-name.desc.version").value)

Bruce