https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspxIf you're not sure where to ask your question, ask it here. If necessary, our moderators will make sure it gets classified in the correct board.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/42546.aspxFri, 05 Jun 2009 19:42:33 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:42546warrtalon0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/42546.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=42546<p>Data validations are specific to the data element itself, not the control, so they will always be the same on every view.&nbsp; Same goes for rules.&nbsp; The only thing that is specific to the control is conditional formatting.&nbsp; If you remove data validation from your field on a specific view, it actually removes it for that data element at the data source level.</p> <p>Now, what is the business requirement that you are trying to meet or accomplish?&nbsp; I mean...what do you REALLY need to do that makes you want to remove validations from a view?</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/42538.aspxFri, 05 Jun 2009 16:22:40 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:42538shivajidatta0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/42538.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=42538Hi, I have a working view and I need to remove the validations from a copy of the view. I copied the view over to another view and removed the validations from a few fields. However, I see that the validations are missing from the same fields in the source view as well. How can I achieve this? Thanks!