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/78170.aspxTue, 01 May 2012 13:21:47 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:78170TxSteve0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/78170.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=78170<p>LOL! Wow, sometimes can&#39;t see the forest for the trees... :)&nbsp; So I went to my submit button and added rules that said if&nbsp;field1 is blank, hide this control, if field 2 is blank and so on.... So now the user doesn&#39;t even get a submit button until they put data within each field. simple...</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/78169.aspxTue, 01 May 2012 13:16:50 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:78169TxSteve0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/78169.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=39&PostID=78169<p>I&#39;ve got a simple form with six text boxes. I have three fields set as Cannot be blank. I have added a submit and update button to my form thus making it easy for staff to click Submit. It writes to my form list within SharePoint and places a concat function of a code from one of the fields and the Now() to add the unique time stamp which creates my form name. Everything has been working fine... except... </p> <p>When a user is populating a form for the first time and they leave a field blank and press submit, the&nbsp;form will present a&nbsp;message to the user that&nbsp;the field cannot be blank. However the form data is still passed to sharepoint. How can I abort the form from&nbsp;moving forward if the cannot be blank data needs to be populated first. Hope this makes sense.&nbsp; </p>