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/28192.aspxWed, 23 Apr 2008 16:51:15 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:28192Greg Collins0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/28192.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=28192<p>If you are using SharePoint 2003, this might help: <a href="http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/09/08/Use-the-SharePoint-_27005B00_Me_5D002700_-Filter-with-a-Promoted-Property.aspx">http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/greg/archive/2005/09/08/Use-the-SharePoint-_27005B00_Me_5D002700_-Filter-with-a-Promoted-Property.aspx</a></p> <p>If you are using SP 2007, there&#39;s been a lot of discussion about this not working. You can search the forums to read the discussions. One person had to create a custom control to get it to work. I don&#39;t have details on what they did.</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/28137.aspxTue, 22 Apr 2008 14:50:48 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:28137martin6000https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/28137.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=28137<p>Hi,</p><p>Another newbie question here.</p><p>In my sharepoint view I want to use the [Me] filter. </p><p>However Ive noticed it only works if the field you are filtering against is a proper name type field such as Created By, Modified By.</p><p>My Manager field is a text string...</p><p>How can I convert it to type &#39;name&#39; if such a type exists?</p><p>Thanks!<br /><br />&nbsp;</p>