InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I have browser enabled forms published to my Sharepoint Site.  In order to work around the lack of support for user roles in browser-enabled forms, I'm using active directory along with various rules in my form and a separate list on my Sharepoint site.  I followed this tutorial: 

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-emulate-user-roles-in-infopath.html

I got everything to work fine and the user roles I was trying to enable worked very well, but the next time I came back to my "My Form Admins" list, in the "User" column, the names of the people I added from active directory had disappeared and the fields were blank.  Now, every time I try to add someone new from active directory, the "User" field always turns out blank.  Why is this, and how can I fix it?  The only name that displays is my name that I created in Active Directory (the first name I ever created) for some reason.  I've just been creating new users in active directory, so they're not actually "real" people.  Is this the issue here?  Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the inner workings of active directory..  My company does not use it, but my client's does, which is why this is a doable solution.

I have tried logging out and logging back in, tried deleting the users from active directory and re-adding them and have also created entirely new users in active directory.

I think this has to do with your profile database.  The people picker doesn't really connect to AD but rather to the profile database.  The profile database gets populated with information from Active Directory, but if that profile database gets wiped or doesn't get updated, then you may have incomplete information in that special list you created.  If the User metadata isn't showing up, then it must not be in the profile database.  Do you have access to the SSP Admin in order to ensure your profile import is working and pulling in AD info regularly?

As an aside, here are my two versions of doing User Roles in browser forms:

InfoPath – User Roles in Browser-Enabled Forms Using Contacts List (similar to yours)

InfoPath - User Roles in Browser-Enabled Forms Using AD Groups

Well, if you manage the SharePoint farm, then you'd have access, but you would already know where it is, because you'd have spent a lot of time there when building it.  The SSP admin site is its own site collection with separate permissions.  If you're not familiar with configuring the SSP, i wouldn't recommend messing with it, but rather getting your SharePoint admin or architect to make the changes.  Not sure what your situation is, but the SSP (its access and knolwedge of it) are critical pieces to building a proper MOSS farm, so I would assume you didn't build the farm.