InfoPath Dev

The file attachment control is supported in a browser form, but the base 64 data type (which is what the control stores) can't be promoted up to your SharePoint site. The documentation is simply talking about the control itself, and you are right, it wouldn't be in your tool box if you couldn't use it. But the error message you are getting is not related to the control at all, simply the supported data types in ShP.

Thanks Hilary, it appears that you are correct, that file attachment option is (according to the below link) enabled for a custom web service not SP. All it basically does is send the attachment to a seperate document library and store the link to the attachment in the column that the other information from the form was sent to.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/es-ES/sharepointinfopath/thread/f2b78cee-4a47-4d05-b3af-60b376718717

 Basically I had done a reverse of the above before, loading attachments in a document library, then having people link to the attachment and include in the form before they send it out, so that those who receive the report could click on the link to open the attachment.

 Looks like I will have to keep doing it that way.