InfoPath Dev

 Well...I guess, from what I've found since I started this thread, is that "orphans happen." LOL Seems that it's just the ones that point to a non-existing data source make all the noise. haha.

 yep... I know I have indeed done both of those. so...now I have a new strategy, and will delete the rules before deleting a field containing them or a data connection. I know I must have billions of little orphans. haha that may be a bit (quite a bit) of an exaggeration. But...I bet I have a lot of em. :) Thanks again Hilary for sharing ...

 So, what did I do wrong to create the orphan rule. Maybe that's what I need to know so I don't make more of em. :)

 Yep...that did it.  I was hoping to not have to do that, but I did according to your instructions.   Thanks,  Ray

 Hi,   I recently changed some web services references in a form. But when I try to run Design Checker, It keeps finding an error. I have gone through every rule I can find and can no longer fins any reference to the old webservice. Yet Design checker still finds references to the old code.  I outputted the form as source ...

Thanks a billion, Hilary!

 some of the forms have the older Qrules in them. Some don't have any and one has the newer (one rev back I think)  

 Well... there you go.   Another possible function for another installment of Qrules. :) Yeah, I've done the reminder already. That's how I discover I forgot to reset it after publish, as I usually click the "Open in Browser" link after publish to be sure I didn't introduce a goober that doesn't ...

I don't where you are getting the "Approver" from your text, so I assume you are getting the approverID from a list or somewhere to populate your "approver list." Make sure you are comparing the username() to the approver ID and not their actual name. One thing I do is to force all comparisons of userName() to ...

 Hi, I have started tracking all of my forms usage using a quick post to a SQL server via a web service I've created. This way we can run an analysis on all the form activity. It tracks Open, Submit, Update, Completion and Errors along with the date-time, FormType, FormID, Form Version, UserID, FormStatus and the XML form filename ...