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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>Re: Setting the name of a field or column to the value of another field</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/46410.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:21:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:46410</guid><dc:creator>Qazi Anis</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/46410.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&amp;PostID=46410</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;you can set the value of a field to another field not the name of a field to another field. Changing the field name amounts to changing the schema of the form, which i dont think is possible&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Setting the name of a field or column to the value of another field</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/44179.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:44179</guid><dc:creator>j0nxy</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/44179.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&amp;PostID=44179</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I have a form that needs to do some calculations on one of 20 or so columns.&amp;nbsp; It determines what column it needs each time by comparing a date field on the form (then there needs to be&amp;nbsp;20 conditional statements to&amp;nbsp;find it ie: date &amp;gt; 1-1-09 or &amp;lt; 1-30-09)&amp;nbsp;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;There are&amp;nbsp;several places on the form where&amp;nbsp;I need to&amp;nbsp;reference this column.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;With out looking up the column each time and doing the 20 conditions, is there a way to look up this column once and set that column name to a variable of some sort and be able able to use that in formulas on the form?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>