InfoPath Dev

[quote user="Hilary Stoupa"]I'd add rules on load to populate the new fields if they are blank - but I don't know of a way via rules to copy just the first n characters - how are you doing that in the updated form?[/quote] Thank you Hilary. I'm very new at Sharepoint so I'm still not very familiar with it. This ...

[quote user="Hilary Stoupa"]Hi - InfoPath should already do this for you. You can add the new fields to your existing template, and under the Form Options, set the form to upgrade existing XML. You can even preview your form with some existing XML to see how it will behave (info here). Then, when someone opens the existing XML, it gets ...

I know the subject I wrote is not that clear. Okay here's what I'm trying to accomplish. I have around 500 xml files in the sharepoint and my job is to create a new Infopath with the same fields as the old one but add three more fields to it. Once I publish the new infopath: It it is a old XML = I'm suppose to read all the ...