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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.infopathdev.com:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Newbie Questions</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/39.aspx</link><description>New to InfoPath? Search to see if your question has already been answered. If it has not, then ask it here or the appropriate topic forum.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)</generator><item><title>Why won't my forms merge?</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/107973.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:04:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:107973</guid><dc:creator>mythos</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/107973.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&amp;PostID=107973</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m working on merging forms submitted to a SharePoint 2013 Forms Library (using InfoPath 2013). In SharePoint, the Merge view doesn&amp;#39;t even show up as a choice. If I work on the forms in InfoPath, it tells me it cannot merge the forms because of a&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Catastrophic failure.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have choice fields, text fields, rich text fields,&amp;nbsp;repeating fields, check boxes, and dates.&amp;nbsp;Is there something in one of those field types that makes my forms not merge?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tried creating a very simple form in a test library, with just a text field, a rich text field, and a check box, and I got the same results:&amp;nbsp;no merge view in SharePoint, and&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;An error occurred. Catastrophic failure.&amp;quot; in InfoPath.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both forms were browser enabled, which I think I need for this instance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve looked&amp;nbsp;this up and found many posts where people state this problem, but none where it&amp;#39;s solved. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? Any help you can offer would&amp;nbsp;be much appreciated. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>