InfoPath Dev

  I removed the submit for field8 it was put in by a coworker trying to help.  Yes you are right about the data connections and no I do not need the 103 data in the calculated fields I do need the calculated fields to populate according the selection in field8. It seems that the cascading dropdown negates the ability to do that. I ...

Ohhh, ok I see what you mean. Ok I changed it back to plain text and now words are breaking again. Oh well ... this is how they've been seeing it and approving it, so maybe I'll leave it like this. At least I was able to put the bold back on and now I learned more about the various data type and control type trade offs.

You probably want to change that to plain text multi-line in SharePoint if you want to customize the font. The richest of all text is going to allow the users control over things like font when they are entering data. You will have to customize the form again!

I finally got it to work. I set the SP field to enhanced rich text and multi line. I then Customized in Infopath and re-set the control and tried it again and now it works. Only annoying thing now is I cannot format the text in the textbox - like I wanted to set the textbox to Bold which is how it was before, but those options are grayed ...

Yeah, so as far as I could tell that multiple lines setting on regular text boxes did NOTHING in my list form.... so I'd try changing the list, and refreshing the form fields - you'll end up having to replace your text controls in the form too, I think. :)

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Ok on the top of the screen it says single line of text. but in the right click properties of textbox, "multi lines" is checked. I wonder which does what. On the sharepoint site, the column is set to Single Line of Text. But changing it seems to be grayed out. I guess I thought I had this thing set to multi lines because of the ...

So - here's what I'm seeing w/ a "multiple line of text" control. Can you tell me more about the data types you are using?

That's fine - this is a list form then. So in InfoPath, list forms are lists where we used InfoPath to customize the form (like you are describing). There are also forms that you can publish to and submit to form libraries. I was not able to reproduce the issue with text boxes in a library form, so I'll try a list form.

When I am viewing the list on SP, I click "Customize in Infopath" ... then I customize it from the default that first pops up. Then when done customizing it, I click the Publish button in Infopath. I am not sure about list forms vs. library forms properly speaking. You can tell I am just beginning at this unfortunately and learning as ...