Contact Selector in Infopath 2007

First post on my new blog. Yay! Ok after a lot of poking around I found a few articles which appear to have stemed from the Infopath Team Blog The articles seemed promissing enough. So I started up Infopath 2007 and followed the instructions. I stumbled in two places and this is why I'm writing this post. Firstly when you create your Context.xml you also need to specify the port number if you are using one.

If you don't have a correct server name or don't specify the correct port number you'll simply get:

So if you get this message and you know there's a "smith" in your AD somewhere then check that you have the correct server address specified in your Context.xml file. After I fixed up that issue I was puzzled by the strange behaviour that I was getting out of the control. After typing in a name and clicking the "check name" button the control would become disabled. The same would happen when I selected a person from the list.

I scratched my head and read over the instructions again. I noticed that one of the instructions mentioned that you should drag the group onto the design surface. Where I had been dragging the repeating field (Person) onto the designer. I should have been dragging the People group on.


I hope this post will save some you some time. Isn't that what it's all about?