https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/39.aspxNew 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.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/2944.aspxSat, 05 Aug 2006 07:10:05 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:2944Kalyan Gaddam0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/2944.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=2944Hello,<br /><br />Also read this link for more information, might be helpful<br /<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827005/en-us?spid=2515&sid=121>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827005/en-us?spid=2515&sid=121</a><br />https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/2943.aspxSat, 05 Aug 2006 07:06:46 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:2943Kalyan Gaddam0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/2943.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=2943Hello Priya<br />Welcome to Infopathdev Forums<br /><br />Open the datasource in the Design Tasks <br />Right Click on the Node where you want to add the Field<br />Add the Field and drag the field into the View<br />Open this field properties by double click on it<br />Select default value and insert the Substring function on this field <br /><br />Hope this will help you.https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/1476.aspxFri, 04 Aug 2006 19:31:17 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:1476Priya Ramamurthy0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/1476.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=1476I have an XML document that I use as a datasource for an infopath form. I need another control in addition that will be substring of one of the XML elements. I will be promoting this control to a sharepoint form library also. How can I go about creating this control with a subsring value?<br /><br />Thanks