InfoPath Dev

I don't think your explanation makes sense, and I think you're confusing rows with columns.  You twice said that you want the user to select something in a column and then show all the rest of the items in that column.  That doesn't make sense to me.  Columns are nothing but individual pieces of metadata that describe a ...

That is a very simple and common method that I often use, so I know it works.  Attach the XSN if you'd like.

The first thing I did was preview it, put in my email address, and click the button.  In preview mode, which rich client mode, it pops up a window asking if I want to send an email to the specified recipient with the specified subject using Outlook, which is my default mail client.  I click yes, and the email showed up right away with ...

Are you sure the email address is valid?  If you're 100% sure it is, then attach your XSN using the Options tab and let us see it.  This is very simple, so it shouldn't take long to figure out. Also, are you certain that outgoing email is configured on the SharePoint server?

Could you explain your solution that met this requirement so that others can learn from it?

What is an Intro field?  Is it the Subject?

That's up to you on the 6-digit thing.  You know the technique now, but you need to figure out something that is unique and is only 6 digits.  I use the now() function, because it goes down to the second, and I concatenate it with the username, because it's nearly impossible for a user to submit two separate forms in the same ...

If access was denied, then you may have a SharePoint configuration that isn't right, or you're logged into a machine with credentials that aren't recognized in the profile database.  Are you using MOSS and not WSS 3.0?  If so, is there an SSP?  There has to be for this web service to work.  In SSP Admin, do you ...

Any way of shortening what?  Giving what reference?

"The process and workflow continue past the point I'm describing here, but I didn't want to go further because I just need view 1 to be read only once the first approval has gone thru. " You know your situation better than I, of course, but I see no reason why you can't do that with an Open/Save rule.  This is easy ...