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Hi All, I have an issue regarding repeating section and infopath. I will provide details of the issue. I have created a custom list in sharepoint which is migrated to 2013 environment. I used the default form which came along with the list and started editing it using infopath 2013. However i dont have the option of repeating section under the controls tab. Am i missing something here? was there anything which i had to do prior to creating a list. I have attached a screenshot of the controls section from my infopath. Any help on this will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Varun.

Hello Varun,

In an InfoPath list form you cannot add a repeating section. The reason for this is that list forms contain flat data, not complex repeating schemas. If you want to create a form with a repeating section of information, you could create an InfoPath form library that queries your SharePoint list to populate data. If you require the data to be flat and easy to export you have a few options.

1. Use CAML to map the form fields back to the list.
2. Us qRules SubmitToSharePointList to map the repeating section back to the SharePoint list.

The CAML method is very tricky but using qRules to map to your list is easy. Here is a blog post by Hilary: http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/hilary/archive/2012/05/30/qrules-submittosharepointlist-walkthrough-for-v4-2.aspx

Hope that helps!
Bre

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