https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/40.aspxFor browser form specific questionsenCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85911.aspxWed, 09 Jan 2013 22:52:00 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:85911Hilary Stoupa0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85911.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=40&PostID=85911<p>Hey - sorry you sort of ended up talking to yourself, but thanks so much for posting your final work around for others, that is much appreciated!</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85908.aspxWed, 09 Jan 2013 20:52:00 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:85908cmille340https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85908.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=40&PostID=85908In the off chance this bubbles up in someone else searches...&nbsp; I ended up ditching the idea of using the external data column linked to the form.&nbsp; I simply created a secondary data connection in the form and stamped the values from the external list into promoted text columns in the form library for each record.&nbsp; I got closer with using the external item picker in the Infopath Form but I couldn&#39;t figure out a way to promote that field to the existing form library external data column.&nbsp; I kept getting some cryptic error that the form template didn&#39;t match what was on the server but it would only give that error when I would promote the BDCentity field, any other field would promote and save fine.&nbsp; Oh well - I&#39;m moving forward again now. Hopefully no one else wastes as much time on this as I did.https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85868.aspxTue, 08 Jan 2013 16:42:24 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:85868cmille340https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/85868.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=40&PostID=85868<p>Does anyone know if it is possible to populate an &#39;External Data&#39; type column from InfoPath 2010 OR a SPD workflow?&nbsp; I have added an external column to a list and if I manually set the value it populates all the cascaded columns just fine.&nbsp; I can&#39;t get that primary column to populate though through a workflow or&nbsp; bind it to a field in the InfoPath form though. I do own qRules but I don&#39;t use it for anyhting other than creating a list record on one of my forms.</p><p>To help with a report, I am hoping i can bring in a couple different columns from the external list into the form list. Everything works but I don&#39;t want to have to manually go edit each record to provide the external data field, hopefully there is some what to feed that value to that column.</p><p>Thanks in advance for your help!</p><p>-Chris</p>