InfoPath Dev

Ok I checked that and it was not set to do nothing, it was set to automatically ........

The post formatting is awful, right? The forum runs on pretty old software and you'll have better luck if you use Internet Explorer to post. The first thing to check would be if your form is set to update existing XML - it could be the form is set to "do nothing" so your new fields aren't getting added to existing forms. That is ...

Yes, that was very helpful! I did not know about form load rules until now. Thank you! My current situation is that: - I save the value of control1 in the form load event to a control1_initialvalue field - I save the value of control2 in the form load event to a control2_initialvalue field - I have the formatting Rule of a section ...

Sure - you can add a form load rule and a helper field for this. In the form load rules, set the helper field to the value of the form when it was opened. Does that make sense?

So - if your dropdowns are in a repeating section, it is probably best to just query for all the data (as long as it doesn't impact load times for the form or cause other issues because the data load is huge). That's because if you requery the data source for the initial dropdown on each selection, you could end up with no data available ...

I have a drop down control where whenever it is Changed, then a hidden Section becomes visible; the hidden Section has a Change Justification box. All is well, however, the users have asked me what if they Change the control- and then Change it right back to what it was before, hence it wasn't really "changed" they were just ...

I've been using a secondary data connection and filtering the results to get cascading dropdowns to work. I just stumbled across another method that uses query fields and rules to do the same thing. in what cases would one method be better than another? Thanks

It would be helpful to see a copy of your form. Can you attach it to a reply under the Option tab?

Did someone else change the form? Can you see where else the data connection may be used? Can you attach a copy of your form under the Options tab in a reply and I can take a quick look at it for you?

Hi,    I have two views 1. is edit only view and other is read only view. In edit view I have a drop down field called "abc" with default set to "No" In read only view  I copied that same field. Issue: 1. Default value in edit view is not represented in Read only view.  2. Data saved in edit view, is ...