InfoPath Dev

We still have it.   Our workaroubd is to make everyone open the forms library and then click new, instead of use a shortcut.  That always fixes our error.  Sure is ugly.

Is anyone else still having this problem?  I have a form with about a hundred users who aren't having issues...  And there is one person that is running into this problem.  When she opens pre-existing forms they open as read-only, however if she tries to create a new form she gets the "This form cannot be opened because it ...

You definitely don't want to be setting main data source fields to these values - since you don't want them saved to your list. You should be able to use a calculated value control with the XPath to the field in your secondary data source. You may also be able to just drag the field from your secondary data source onto the form - if I ...

Perfect that did just what I wanted it to do. Thanks for the help.

Anson, No one is concern about writing back to the events list.  This form doesn't write to the events list.  The problem is that when I add text boxes to the form to display data that has been read from the events list, InfoPath adds fields to the attendees list to store that data.  I'm trying to avoid adding fields to ...

This is how my data comes:  Manager                            ...

What does the xml look like for that?

Hi - when you say you display the name, time and location in text boxes on the form - what are those text boxes bound to? Are you using rules to populate fields in your main data source with the data from the secondary data source? As Anson mentions, InfoPath is only going to save data from the main data source. It sounds to me as if you are ...

As long as your secondary data connection is set up as Retrieve Data only, then you shouldn't have to worry about writing back data to the events list. Instead of using query strings, try using filters on the event data based on the event ID.  Hopefully that will accomplish the behavior you want.

Hello there, I have the challenge of trying to get user details without the aid of code in my forms.  Our environment only has WSS 3.0 not MOSS, so from the research I've done I have no options other than 3rd party tools. My question though is surrounding the contact selector.  When I use that control on a form, it displays Name, ...