Hi,
With new response forms, this is a 'normal' situation. This is a current limitation : https://community.nintex.com/t5/Responsive-Forms/New-Responsive-Office365-Current-limitations/m-p/89047 , it is equivalent to "Binding a repeating section to a column and displaying on a Task Form"
However, you can workaround this.
For the explanation :
In the XML generated by the Repeating section, all XML node name corresponding to a control are generated with a GUID (Not the name of the control like for classic forms).
So when you want to display your List B form, the Form can't make the mapping between control in repeating section and the XML content. That why you have an empty repeating section.
For the workaround, there are several ways to do it
Simple solution :
Import the List A Forms in the List B, made some modification if needed, but don't touch controls of your repeating section. With this, in your List B Form , your controls in repeating section will have the same GUID of repeating section controls of list A, and so, when you want to display your List B the form will be able to perform its mapping.
Solution Advenced :
In your worklfow, transform your XML value. Replace the old GUID (XML node name) from repeating section control from List A to new GUID (XML node name) from your controls of repeating section list B.
Hope this will help you
Thank you Nico.
Unfortunately cant use the List A form on List B as there are many additional fields display in List B. Can you elaborate the solution advanced? DO you have steps how to do that in Workflow ?
Thank you very much in advance.
You can still use you List Form A on you list B.
Simply :
1- Import the list form A on your list B
2- Remove all controls of the forms (except the repeating section)
3- Add new controls and connect theme to your list field.
For the advence solution :
The steps should be some thing like :
step 1 : copy the XML of your repeating in a string variable
step 2 : Replace in this XML, the old node name by the new node node name
Repeate step 2 for each controls / nodes in your repeating section.
For exemple
In Form A, you have a repeating section with 2 txt control names : input1 and input2
The repeating section of you form A generated the following XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RepeaterData>
<Version />
<Items>
<Item>
<input1 type="System.String">Value 1 from List A</input1>
<input2 type="System.String">Value 2 from list A</input2></Item>
</Items>
</RepeaterData>
The repeating section of form B generate the following XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RepeaterData>
<Version />
<Items>
<Item>
<d0902055-c1f4-4f5d-8f57-abd671a4d3ee type="System.String">Value X from list B</d0902055-c1f4-4f5d-8f57-abd671a4d3ee>
<f8ac8d8d-4f1d-412c-b9e5-90fecb430d5f type="System.String">Value Y from list B</f8ac8d8d-4f1d-412c-b9e5-90fecb430d5f></Item>
</Items>
</RepeaterData>
So, in your step 2, you must use 2 "replace" action (or regular expression).
- Replace "input1" by "d0902055-c1f4-4f5d-8f57-abd671a4d3ee"
- Replace "input2" by "f8ac8d8d-4f1d-412c-b9e5-90fecb430d5f"
And so, the XML from you Form A changed to be understanding by the repeating section of your Form B should be :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RepeaterData>
<Version />
<Items>
<Item>
<d0902055-c1f4-4f5d-8f57-abd671a4d3ee type="System.String">Value 1 from List A</d0902055-c1f4-4f5d-8f57-abd671a4d3ee>
<f8ac8d8d-4f1d-412c-b9e5-90fecb430d5f type="System.String">Value 2 from List A</f8ac8d8d-4f1d-412c-b9e5-90fecb430d5f></Item>
</Items>
</RepeaterData>
