https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/46.aspx For questions concerning issues in the integration of SharePoint and Microsoft InfoPath.enCommunityServer 2007 SP3 (Build: 31118.962)https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/79373.aspxFri, 08 Jun 2012 16:56:57 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:79373Anson Hidajat0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/79373.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=46&PostID=79373<p>Not sure if this will help, but here is a video tutorial on how cascading dropdowns work in InfoPath: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7xUEcQwwg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7xUEcQwwg</a></p><p>So is your problem that the field type cannot be promoted?&nbsp; Repeating fields can only be promoted as first, last or merge.&nbsp; There isn&#39;t an option to promote them individually.</p>https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/79250.aspxTue, 05 Jun 2012 15:03:00 GMT033a2e2d-04e2-4a9d-be01-a4634161eefd:79250Jen B0https://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/thread/79250.aspxhttps://www.infopathdev.com:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=46&PostID=79250<p>Hi all,</p> <p>I&#39;m guessing this has come up a million times before, but I can&#39;t find a post about it - and am in a time crunch.&nbsp; I have a number of multi-select or cascading dropdown fields&nbsp;in my IP 2010 form.&nbsp; The form is published, and submits to, a 2007&nbsp;MOSS sharepoint (no form services, excel services, etc. enable due to IT restricting them).&nbsp; Is there a work around via IP, sharepoint, sharepoint designer or nintex workflows that can enable filtering on those multi-select/cascading dropdown fields?&nbsp; The one option we used to edit other fields with workflows only worked because the fields could be promoted as editable in SP, but that option doesn&#39;t exist for either of these field types.&nbsp; I&#39;m stumped, and really would like to avoid using single check boxes (and can&#39;t in some situations due to 2ndary data sources).</p> <p>I&#39;m promoting them as merged fields, which of course shows up as multi line text fields which I can&#39;t filter either in an SP view or create a view that groups based on those choices.&nbsp; A few of these items (organization impacted or request type, for instance) are integral pieces of information that I need to be able to filter on for groups who work the requests coming in.&nbsp; </p> <p>Is there a solution/workaround out there that can get me the filtering options I&#39;m looking for from multi-selection/cascading dropdown fields?<br /><br />Thanks!</p> <p>Jen</p>