InfoPath Dev

First off, thank you so much for posting this, and it appears this would work.  I want something a little different however.  I only want to disable save, if it changes from New to Extension. They could say, open a form that is already an extension and save it.  But if they open it and it's new, and change it to extension, the ...

The scenario:  We post forms to a sharepoint library for new projects, and extensions (of those once new projects).  Forms are submited as the form action.  I would like to keep the save feature as long as the status dropdownlist does not change (stays new or stays extension) because this would include changing data like error ...

 Everything has been working great.  Thanks again for all your help.  That notepad2 is very helpful. 

 Ohhhhhh!!!!! I need to put that extra parenthesis in front of the -3 like this: concat(substring(eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), ".."), 1, string-length(eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), "..")) - 3), " - ", ...

 I'm sorry but I'm not sure I follow. I took the first sample you sent me and it worked just fine:   eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), "..") When I applied that to your next line of code : substring(eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ...

 I did that and got this error:  Expected value type: , Actual value: end-of-string concat(substring(eval(eval(../my:group5/my:rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), ".."), 1, string-length(eval(eval(../my:group5/my:rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), ...

 I think I answered my own question, which I'll post later, but it seems my formula above doesnt quite give me the results I hoped for.  Instead of removing the last 3 characters, it only posts 3 characters the first 3.   I'm so close I can taste it.  Any thoughts?  This stuff is just a little over my ...

 Ok, I got it to work using both versions of code: Formula:  "  substring(eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), ".."), 1, string-length(eval(eval(rsResourceName, 'concat(my:tbResourceName2, " , ")'), "..") - 3))  " Now for the million ...

 more info, sorry.  So i'm viewing my data source and realize i'm not referencing the repeating section directly, but the folder it puts it in. group5     rsResourceName     the repeating section         tbResoruceName          the textbox in the repeating ...

 xpath values:  Subject Line:    " concat(my:ddlEngagementType, " Project Announcement - ", my:group5, " - ", my:ddlPractice, " - ", my:ddlEmployeeClassification) " Attachment Line:   " concat(my:group5, " - ", my:tbClientName) "   I'm getting ready ...