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Re: Unable to effectively publish changes to "Limit text box to" x characters

Greg Collins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:56:32 GMT

Ocassionally a form can become corrupted. And it's often impossible to track down why. Its good to keep occasional backups as you develop, or use a source control system.

You might be able to, if it's not an overly complex form, rebuild it and then compare all the template source files to see what is different.

Re: Unable to effectively publish changes to "Limit text box to" x characters

tleining — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:03:20 GMT

I've tried this on multiple machines. It appears to be form specific. I can go in and modify it in the backend just concerned about what else may be "corrupted"

Re: Unable to effectively publish changes to "Limit text box to" x characters

Greg Collins — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:38:02 GMT

I have never seen this behavior before. You might want to try designing this template on another box with InfoPath to see if you get the same behavior. I suspect that it is this particular installation of InfoPath that has the issue. That being the case, an Office Repair or a reinstallation of Office or InfoPath might be in order. If this occurs on a second machine, then let us know and we can pass that info on to Microsoft.

Unable to effectively publish changes to "Limit text box to" x characters

tleining — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:52:34 GMT

I have a form that originally had a name field limited to 40 characters. I have a request to change this to 35 characters. When I open the form in design mode, the "Limit text box to" check box is unchecked.

If I change this to checked, add 35 characters and preview the form, it still allows 40 characters. However, if I open the properties back up, it still shows 35 characters.

If I change this to checked, add 35 characters and publish the form, it still allows 40 characters. However, if I open the form in design mode again, it shows this as unchecked.

I have been able to open the manifest.xsf and change the maximum length to 35 characters successfully. However, this causes me concern from a longer term support perspective that if someone opens the properties box, they don't see any restriction on this field.

I am using Infopath 2003 SP2.

Any ideas??