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 You might ensure that the network drive is mapped to the same drive letter (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/4869ef03-393a-4469-8e2e-efcae50c9127/infopath-failed-connection-to-data-source-error-but-only-for-one-user?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious). I'd also check if the same version (including updates) of ...

Could I see your form where you are using a SharePoint List? I'm assuming you'd prefer that approach?

There isn't a way to override this behavior, that I know of. I suppose you could provide a button in the form that sets the date picker to today for last year or something....

Oh, got it. So you should probably just add the status field to the repeating table itself. Default to New, use that in your formatting rule. Then, on submit, if you set the repeating field to submitted, all instances will get set. Does that work for you?

SharePoint is storing dates as DateTimes. It displays them formatted based on the user's regional settings. We can't override the way they are displayed - so if you have specific display needs, you'll need to use a calculated column. I don't understand your other question - that is just how date pickers work? You can always type in ...

Why not add a "status" field to your form? It doesn't have to show on the form, just be in the main data source. It can default to New. Then, the first time a user submits a form, in the submit rules, set it to Submitted (or whatever, just change it). Then your validation rules can be exactly what they are with the addition of ...

Yeah, and it could probably be done with a single list - the stage dropdown would need to only show unique items - I just added a second XML because it was faster for me than re-doing the initial work :)

In your customized list form, you can change the format on the date picker - right click the control, select format and pick the desired format. For the list data, you probably have to add a calculated column and display that in the list: ...

So, I added another XML file to this copy, that has stages and paths - save the XML from the form's resource files and you'll see the data (or put the secondary data source on the form). I've set the paths so that stages 1 & 2 can also go to Stage 5, and so that Stage 5 can also go to stages 9 or 10. I only had to add one more ...