InfoPath Dev

This gets really annoying, because you have to redo your Customize Commands whenever you copy a table from one view to another. I really hope this is not a "feature".

Reproduction:

1) Create a new blank form.
2) Create a second view on this form called "v2".
3) Switch back to "View 1".
4) Add a repeating table control with 3 columns to View 1.
5) Right-click the repeating table, click "Repeating Table properties..."
6) click "Customize commands..."
7) From the drop-down choose "Insert above"
8) In the box on the bottom type "VISIBLE VIEW 1 NOT VIEW 2"
9) Hit "Ok" on all the open dialog boxes
10) click the repeating table to select it
11) Hit ctrl-c
12) Change to "v2" view
13) Paste - ctrl-v
14) Preview form - switch to view 1 - right-click on row widget Customized commands are visible
15) View v2 - right-click on row widget - customized commands are NOT visible

:(

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Matt Faus

Hi Matt,
Beware, there's other stuff that doesn't copy well. For example, expression boxes.

Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP]
InfoPathDev

Why oh why? It makes everything so much more time consuming. You have 4 views that are relatively the same and change one thing on one table that is shared across all 4 views and you want to copy it, but once you do then you have to spend 5 mins on each view AGAIN to get the custom commands to work.... Ugh...

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Matt Faus

Believe me, we share your pain...

Patrick Halstead [InfoPath MVP]
InfoPathDev