InfoPath Dev

Make sure that when you publish your form using InfoPath 2010 that you choose compatibility settings for 2007. Otherwise, you'll see this error.

You should also look at BCS since that simplifies stuff in 2010.

You can't preview browser based forms from the designer, but you can preview UDCs if the form is saved locally first. Keep in mind that local design mode runs under a different security context. You may need to add the site which you are using for your UDCs to your local intranet group in IE. Try that and see if it fixes your problem.

Yeah, that's the idea - just like a web.config or an app.config file. You have a group node with a repeating group underneath it with fields underneath that for your site->lib paths and other metadata associated with them. If the schema for the forms in the site->libs are all the same (and they are since you're using a content ...

Hi Amira, Content Types are a best practice. Good job on that. I'm confused by your explanation: "I have all docs from all sites from all lib1 be secondary  sources into my main site-->lib1-->form1" Isn't this rather non-scalable? You must have lots of data connections for your form template and whenever a ...

Create a Print View that substitutes a nice image for the button or an appropriate character from the Wingdings font.

Hi Quicksilver, Please ask the person who writes the content for that site. We aren't free support for the articles on that site. The author of those articles should have her own forum instead of sending everyone here. To filter and sort a SharePoint list in InfoPath, I suggest installing our free trial of qRules. You'll be up and ...

Hi Paul, The People Picker is a special control but you should still be able to set a rule on it and trigger some actions based on input. Of course, the user filling out the form will have to tab out of the field to have the rule fire. If that is unacceptable, why not just use your own fields to populate users from Active ...

This is really easy to do. Add a data connection to the SharePoint list called Courses. Show the values for name and date in two dropdowns. Second dropdown is filtered on first.. Add a rule to the second dropdown that queries a data connection to get the Attendee Names based on the first two values. If you add the SharePoint list IDs ...

Hi Carolyn, If you designed your InfoPath Form Template from an XSD, the default functionality is to respect that schema and not add extraneous elements. The only way to workaround this is to manually change it by saving the template as source files and going in and modifying by hand. I'm guessing that you didn't design the form this way. ...