InfoPath Dev

I see I was opening with the wrong icon. Opening with the edit icon puts it in that webpart. It's at least alive now. But have more work the get it right.

My form is working well, and 6 months after the last submit a form load rule makes any opening from the "display" webpart, so editing is locked. I'd like to create a back door for supervisors to re-open editing. On my display form I have a picture button which opens an 'office use only' view, where I was hoping more picture ...

It seems to be copying and pasting the controls that starts the problem in the first place.

If I select each control in design view, and set it to white AGAIN (the first one using the custom colors window), they seem to get fixed (for now at least). What a pain!

Yikes! I gave my cells a background color and my controls (text boxes and calculated displays) I left white. When I open the form in the Display webpart the controls just adopt the color of the cell. Besides being in the Display webpart the form is set to 'read only'. Neither of those things should disable the color inside controls, should ...

Will do - all. Thanks

Thanks to the help I've found here I'll soon have a site with 6 lists, all with infoPath forms. Technicians will be using it often to enter data. What if I want to change format or structure on one of them? How do I proceed safely? I'm not sure if I need a full "Check out" procedure (although if it was easy I might use ...

Thanks Hilary, I see now that SharePoint makes it easy to add months to a date, and integrates it even for leap years in a calculated column: =DATE(YEAR(originalDate),MONTH(originalDate)+6,DAY(originalDate)) More on formulas ...

Update: I got extracting year (and month) as numbers: YEAR(dateField), leaving datatype as number. After I do my math, how do I insert the new number into a date field?

Hi, Here's a question that should be fun. I want to set a date field to a date 6 months in the future. I see posts about subtracting date/times that look extremely hard and complicated. I only need the number of months. I suppose it will involve extracting the year and the month separately and using a formula. Does the extration have to be ...