InfoPath Dev

This is a known bug in InfoPath. The cursor for adjusting tables gets all screwed up. You found one fix, reboot. The other workaround is to pull up the table properties and adjust column widths in the column tab. That tab even lets you quickly go to the next or previous column to quickly adjust column widths in a table.

dlgross, since you already know how to enable the show hide, all you're missing is the default value. double click on the checkboxes and set the default value appropriately for the condition to have the section hidden when first loading this form. the actual value will depend on how you've setup your condition.

InfoPath does change the dropdowns and Date Pickers to text when printing so not to show the control in the printout. Of course, printing from the design mode will show more of what you see in the design mode to aid design review.

In InfoPath 2007 coming soon, a feature called the Data Connection Library will actually provide this type of favorites list functionality. It's probably not exactly what you're looking for but similar.

One other option is to have a blank first row and hide it using filters. Add a filter to the repeating table/section. Choose ''The expression'' from the filter dropdown and then type in ''position() > 1'' without the qutoes. This will display all rows except the first one.

A user is going to click on button and get a ''Sum'' of points earned from a DB table. SQL Server, i.e. select sum(pointEarned) as TotalPoints from <table x> where username = user name stored on the form. I created a ''view'' that stores the sum's for every username in the db. I added the view as a secondary datasource. all the fields ...

Correct. You need to manually move the buttons into the correct locations.

The Header layout table (along with repeating tables) do pick up the color scheme but other layout tables and manually inserted layout tables do not. I had to implement color schemes in a very limited way for the first release of InfoPath. You will have to manually set the background shading and border color. This is made easier because the ...

Yes, go to Tools::Form Options. Then in the Open and Save tab there is a button to set Rules on open / onLoad. In there you can set a rule to query a data connection and then add other rules to set field values based on data you query.

InfoPath 2007 also enables laying out sections side by side. This would theoretically allow you to create a structure that looks like table columns only using sections that are placed next to each other. Then you can show/hide the sections as usual. This was not possible in InfoPath 2003 because sections were a block element and had to be on ...