InfoPath Dev

So, usually this is a mismatch in the column info in the form you are publishing and the column info in SharePoint. Usually, if you start with the published template when making your changes, this will stop happening, so you may want to try that. Quickest and weirdest way to get the data back is to open the library in explorer view, copy all the ...

Hello All, does anyone have a problem loosing displayed data on their SharePoint form library after republishing your InfoPath for. We I update the and republish my form, the document is still present, but the column data is missing. I have to open and close every InfoPath form and refresh my browser page for the information to show up ...

 Take a look at this post -  http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/t/31708.aspx - There is a form someone else was working on that I think is the same thing you are talking about. :)

 Thank you Hilary! Appreciate the direction to the site. I'll soak it up and give it a go

 You rock Hilary! Thank you very much. I used two calc values and got it displaying how i would like it

 The button sets a field in the repeating group to 1. Since the button is outside the repeating group, it sets all instances. That causes the rules the on the field to fire. The index in the square brackets is created by counting the preceding siblings of the current group2 node, it was written by hand. You can click the edit XPath checkbox ...

 Unfortunately, DateDiff is not a built in InfoPath function - it is from an add in for InfoPath (built by the company I work for) called qRules. There are formulas out there that will allow you to do this without code or third party add ins - but they are pretty complex. ...

I'd just use some calculated values for this, not a concat formula, where you can't set the format to date. See attached sample. Save the file locally, right click and select Design to open in the designer - from there you can take a look at the design, preview the form, etc.

 Hello, I am having some dificulty getting the below formula to work and display the minutes difference between two date\time text box fields. Please help :)       concat(" DateDiff /date1=", /my:myFields/my:KeyEvents/my:OptBusinessImpactStarted/my:BusinessImpactStarted, " /date2=", ...

 Thanks Hilary, This looks promising, I seem to understand the concept. However im not quite clear how you managed to set up the rules for the button and the copy attribute field. For the button I see a value of 1 but I don't know how this was created or what it is referring to For the copy attribute field. i'm ...