Benefits
Extend your InfoPath form to add workflow. No coding required. Qdabra's Contact Selector lets you quickly assign users and route your forms to them for approval. Packaged in an easy-to-install template package, you can quickly add to your form by just dragging and dropping. Here's what you get:
- Customize your contact selection fields
- Having trouble modifying the out-of-box People Picker control to meet your form's visual requirements? Qdabra's Contact Selector lets you customize your form to fill in the user information in the format you want
- Enhance your form's workflow using Active Directory. Get your users' properties and create custom in-form workflow
- Get the user's manager, direct reports, or group membership. Qdabra's Contact Selector lets you easily query for manager, direct reports, or membership in a group
- Populate user information even if you don't have Outlook 2007 or SharePoint 2010
- Qdabra's Contact Selector lets you populate user information from Active Directory. No Outlook/SharePoint required
Qdabra's Contact Selector lets you add multiple contacts to your form, and it works with browser-based forms.
In the following screenshot, the user searched for all users with “John” in their Active Directory records and then clicked on the arrows to add John Baker and John Smith to the form:

Package
The Contact Selector package contains the following components:
- QdContactSelectorXTP - Contact Selector template part, no ActiveX required, no code.
- Qdabra Active Directory (ADWS) Standalone tool- find users by name from Active Directory. Get All Users in an organization or unit; this also supports filtering for users who have email, department, or last name
- Qdabra qRules - You also get access to commonly requested InfoPath features that you can add to your forms
Resources and References
- Blog Tutorial: Qdabra's Contact Selector
- Video Demo: QdContactSelector XTP [4:33]: how the template part works in InfoPath and in the browser.
Requirements
- InfoPath 2007 or later - template parts (XTPs) are not supported in InfoPath 2003
- Qdabra qRules v2.3 or later installed - qRules is included in this package
- Admin-deploy to SharePoint - qRules is a library that contains code, so you need to publish your form to SharePoint 2007 as an administrator approved form. If you’re on SharePoint 2010, you can publish it as a regular form and it will work in both the client and the browser
- Contact Selector XTP works with browser-based forms in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome with InfoPath 2007
- Active Directory Web Service (ADWS) installed - ADWS is included in this package, and needs to be installed on a network computer with IIS in your company's domain
Pricing
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