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I have a form that has a section but I have now decided that I should have created a repeating section so users could fill out multiple records before submitting them.

 I tried changing my main section to a repeating section but everything disappears.  I think that’s what I should have done to start with but I didn’t think about it.  Should the section be a repeating section (or repeating table) and is there an easy way I can change it without doing an entirely new view.  I’ve tried that too but nothing will copy and paste.  I don't want to recreate the entire view.  It was very difficult and it has many rules so it would be very time consuming. 

Does anyone have any suggestions?

The problem is that control-to-DOM binding is different for a section and a repeating section.

Sometimes when I get stuck like this I like to get down to the metal and do things manually. If you are so daring, I would create a separate blank form, add in a section and a repeating section. Add a node in each. Extract the form files and compare the difference between the section and repeating section in myschema.xsd and view1.xsl. There's probably only some trivial differences that you can manually make to your existing form (make a backup first!) to where the next time you open it in the designer, poof! it's upgraded to a repeating section.

This suggestion is not for the light of heart and not for those with no experience in XML, XSL, and XSD