InfoPath Dev

Without seeing the form with the XML resource file I can't begin to guess. Have you opened the XML in a text editor and searched for "#N/A"? I think in another post, you talked about creating this XML from Excel - #N/A is a common error in Excel, like when a VLOOKUP doesn't return a value. In the last version of the form I looked ...

I dont understand how to tell it to not include something that is not in the XML. The file doesnt have any #N/A in it...however that is showing up in every dropdown regardless of the xml attached.

so i am concerned that on this form they may be selecting different group and sub group i do not want the selection that they have chosen to go away from the first entry and subsequent entries how do i put a rule that will allow them to keep entering in the repeating table and allow them to select different subgroups?

If there are specific values you don't want to display that your original filter doesn't exclude, you have to add to the filter.

so here is a new twist even though I have an xml pointing to a dropdown it is pulling in a category that equals N/A i dont want that...do i have to make a rule not to include them?

ok so all of my xml need to be attached I did that and it is all working, the only issue is the repeating piece from before.......just wish i knew how to make that go away

InfoPath is going to use XPath notation - the period is normal. https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp for more. I don't understand this: "If I have it pointing to the sharepoint library it will not pull the data" - I don't know what that means. If your data connection is setup to use a resource file from the form, the ...

The other thing that is weird is that I cannot use the cascading dropdowns if the resource file is not attached to the form. If i have it pointing to the sharepoint library it will not pull the data. Is that normal?

I cant figure out how to get this to work without the period

This is the site i followed to get what I achieved it walks you through it very well. https://manojssharepointblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/infopath-2013-web-browser-creating-cascading-dropdown-fields-with-no-code/ The second one is to clear the inactive that is ...