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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>General</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/41.aspx</link><description>If 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.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)</generator><item><title>Re: Large InfoPath form is unstable</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/76995.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:21:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:76995</guid><dc:creator>Anson Hidajat</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/76995.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&amp;PostID=76995</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Performance does tend to degrade due to some key factors in your InfoPath form as it scales.&amp;nbsp; There are articles out there that may help you which can serve as best practices for designing your forms:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251(v=office.12).aspx"&gt;http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251(v=office.12).aspx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Also applies to 2010)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For your specific problem, try to extract out the view that is giving you trouble into another template to see if the problem reproduces.&amp;nbsp; That way you can determine whether its just the complexity of your form that is causing the problem or perhaps the way you are designing that specific view.&amp;nbsp; Have you considered breaking up your form into multiple templates?&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Large InfoPath form is unstable</title><link>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/76986.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:09:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:76986</guid><dc:creator>AndrewT</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/76986.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=41&amp;PostID=76986</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;ve been working for some months designing an InfoPath 2007 form to use as a digital inspection form for state regulatory inspectors.&amp;nbsp; Over time, the form has become very complex with twenty five views.&amp;nbsp; The form was working great and everything was fine until I modified one particular view by combining it with another.&amp;nbsp; This view contained a large layout table with smaller tables nested within it containing text and text boxes.&amp;nbsp; The nested tables are inside of sections that are conditionally formatted to hide or show depending on certain data from other views.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;When I was completing my work on that view, I noticed that when I changed the font in several of the nested tables that are within sections, the font would change back by itself when I switched views or switched to &amp;quot;preview&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; Then, as I was changing the sizes of some sections, some of the section contents - text and text boxes, would get &amp;quot;bumped&amp;quot; out of the section and end up just below, with the binding lost on the text boxes.&amp;nbsp; Also, in some of the tables, the borders will change from black to blue or disappear altogether, leaving the contents loose on the form in a jumble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have experimented with deleting many of the text boxes, thinking that the form&amp;#39;s complexity had exceeded the software&amp;#39;s ability, but it still has the same problems.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;ve also opened up the form on a different computer and that doesn&amp;#39;t make a difference either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve done a good bit of research online and I haven&amp;#39;t seen this reported anywhere else. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>