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/52267.aspxSat, 27 Feb 2010 07:13:04 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:52267@v@t@r0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/52267.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&PostID=52267<p>Hi,</p> <p>I have this weird problem that I don&#39;t know how to tackle. I have a form library with dozens of promoted columns for hundreds of forms already submitted, and a form template that is used by that library. I updated the form template and added a few more columns in form option&#39;s promotion property. When I publish the form template, these new columns are created in the library without problem. But, they are not automatically populated based on existing forms&#39; data. I know that sometimes it automatically populates newly promoted&nbsp;columns, but sometimes it doesn&#39;t, and I don&#39;t know why and how to manage this. I tried to create columns in the library first and then&nbsp;promoted them&nbsp;via secondary data source to fields in the form template. Still didn&#39;t help, the columns are empty after I publish the template. </p> <p>I know that I can relink the forms and it does help, but I don&#39;t want to pursue that route, because the Modified By and Modified column will be changed, which is not desired. Besides, doing this for hundreds of forms everytime you add a new promoted column is not productive either. </p> <p>Did anybody face this problem? Do I need to do something in different way when I publish it? Please help if you know anything about this issue. It&#39;s really annoying when you get empty columns like this.</p> <p>Thank you!</p>