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Without boring you too much...the form is an effort to help users in creating another document they need submit in order to request resources for the next fiscal year. As they go through this form and make choices, text boxes with specific language they will need to use on their resource request is displayed. When they submit the ...

You would probably need another field for this - I'm not sure I understand your design decision of a specific text box control for each drop down option - I'm assuming the user enters something in the corresponding text box? At any rate, you would probably need to add yet another field that you promote that holds the value of the text box ...

Thanks for your reply. Maybe I'm not understanding promoted properties correctly, but I don't think that's what I need. I have a dropdown with 7 choices. For each of these options, there's a corresponding text box. I've got the conditional formatting working right so that when a dropdown choice is made the matching text box ...

Are both your forms designed the same? That is, does one use a print view?

Sounds like your situation may be different - this is a pretty old thread. You may want to create a new post with more details on what you are trying to do.

Are you talking about promoted properties? Form fields that display their data in the library the XML is submitted to? Those can be configured under the File menu, Info, Form Options (Tools > Form Options pre-2010) in the Promoted Properties category - just select the field and promote it.

The concat function should do this for you: concat(txtbox3, "; ", txtbox1, "; ", txtbox2) Using the field picker to select the field - I'm assuming you are wanting to add 1 and 2 to whatever is in 3 already - the formlua above will have txtbox3 starting with a ";", so you may want to use conditions, use that ...

That's correct.

I found another idea here. Note he mentions something at the end of the thread that was a deal breaker for him - if the form wasn't saved first, his changes didn't show. So - you could have something in your form that required submit prior to showing the link - have a secondary data source field called submitted that defaults to false, ...

Hi all, I have been enjoying working in infopath but sometimes the repeating table is killing me, please help me somebody for the below problem. I am integrating the infopath form with ERP database using custom webservices call in button click event. I am creating sales order thru infopath in ERP, I have designed the repeating table ...