InfoPath Dev

 count(../preceding-sibling::*) + 1 is very hand for many reasons! Well done finding this, i'm sure it's also on a forum thread here somewhere

 Set the form name as a calculated value, which you have probably done, but you also have to set the SharePoint Library to overwrite forms with the existing names. And if you turn on versioning on your library you keep each of the form as it is saved. Then you set an action on your submit button that submits the form to the library and ...

[quote user="GCTEK"]  Thanks for the replay and apoligise for the slow reply.  not had much chance to work on this of late.  Im sure I will get to the bottom of it one way or another Regards  [/quote]  I'm not sure what the problem is here, it shouldn't matter where your data is coming from (your ...

 Do you need an actual attachment or just a link to the PDF? It would seem that your requirement is an internal affair, which means you could just hyperlink to a file that you have already placed in a document library somewhere....  What I mean is that if a user attaches documents to your form you use SP web services to push them into ...

 That's pretty easy to do, here's an example, you make the default equal to the corresponding field of the data source  filtered by the first field (../../../my:group1/my:group2/my:field2[current()/../my:field6 = ../my:field1])

[quote user="suehernandez"]  I have a relatively hefty form that I'm putting data connections in to.  It's an InfoPath form that was created off of a SharePoint list.  When I hit 8 data connections, I get a SOAP error trying to publish the form, no matter what data connection I try to add.  Go remove a data ...

Why are you building libraries to hold (what I would call) orphaned forms? Build logic in your form so that it looks up other data and then allows users to do whatever they can...... For example, I have a form that anyone can create, it asks for the persons immediate managers name doesn't matter who that is, when the manager opens the form ...

This is a simple way of doing it, what you want to do with the data after you have filtered it is another story!

[quote user="bwhite05"]Yes, please! I am trying to use your methodology to renumber steps - so if you have a Batch updatelistitem form that manages to loop through past the 16 mark, that would be amazing!!![/quote]  Hi again bwhite05, I don't have an example on hand regarding updating the list items after they have been ...

Everyone has to remember that in addition to adding fields your List, you have to add these to your target XLM definition and then you need to use Hilarys methodology to filter the population of the target XML data prior to submitting using the web connection!  Here's the link again to Hilary's outstanding post ...