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thanks for the quick reply. If I were to add a new data connection (connection being to receive or query from a sharepoint list) to a form and republish the form, would that change any values in forms filled out using earlier templates?

In case of a form which already has a dropdown box, could I add another "option" for the dropdown box and republish the template. Will this maintain the earlier selections made on other forms. PS: The dropdown collects these options from a sharepoint list

just to let everyone know. I had both Microsoft infopath 2010 as well as 2007 installed on my computer. I uninstalled infopath 2010 and then I stopped having this issue. I had both 2007 as well as 2010 for a while on my computer and everything still seemed to work fine. So I must have done something wrong related to Infopath 2010 that was ...

I am getting the following error. I have been able to open the same form very recently and make changes and save it. I am an owner on the sharepoint site. The error is ..................................... "InfoPath cannot submit the form. An error occurred while the form was being submitted. The form cannot be submitted to the ...

Although, the above post is useful, a layman explanation will be useful Previous designer has set up complex functions in the form such as the one below below : It goes @D_Title[@Time_Stamp = Y_timeStamp and @User_Alias = Y_userAlias] What does this mean?

Never mind, as soon as I posted this question: I found the information here http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/p/12461/43798.aspx

thank you so much..this has been really helpful One more question : what does the @ symbol do in the above formulas For example if there is an action which has a field "Form1_assignedto_Form4" and Value as @Name [Form1_userAlias=@alias]. Can you explain in layman language what is happening and what exactyl is the @ symbol doing in ...

We have one workflow form wherein we have placed buttons that will allow creating and opening of workflow forms, when they open it the first time and also there are view buttons so that they can open a form they have already created. Sometimes users go and create forms outside the workflow form , directly from the respective form's SharePoint ...

 thank you so much Would that be the login of the sharepoint login or the windows session? 

We have several forms filled out using a form template. We wish to remove the automation for a text box. If we were to remove the rules that affect the text box properties , for example if we were to change the read only properties of the text box and republish the form templates. Do we stand to lose the data filled out in the forms filled out ...