InfoPath Dev

We have a tool for that. This blog post by Mel has more information which could help you decide if it would be useful to you.

Hi, Gerry: Let's see. Moving an .xsn always upsets it -- when you open in design mode, do you get any warnings about needing to save the template again? If you open it in design mode and then publish the .xsn someplace new (like another location on your machine), can you open the published file? The previously created xml files -- were those ...

  OK,  It still appears that since that field is not populated it is just not there?  It keeps giving me an object required error when I get to that point.  I tried using the null comparison but that doesn't work either.  I tried using .length and it gives me the lengths for the items up to the one without anything ...

Looks like it's all there.  Are you for sure publishing the form to the same exact URL as that site collection you showed?

That's what default values do.  They trigger as soon as the form loads, thus the unchecking of the update value box so that it doesn't change on subsequent form loads. However, you may not want the time it was first opened, but rather the moment it was first submitted.  In that case, you'd have a rule in your submit button ...

Good, that's what we like to see.  We intend to help get you on the right path and help with gotchas but not so much to write the entire solution for you.  Hopefully, the above detail will get you a great headstart, but feel free to drop back in and ask for help with individual items.

I was thinking that before but was not sure if it would be updated on page load or not. I'll give it a whirl, thanks buddy!

 Simply create a field in your form, set its default value to the now() function, and uncheck "Update this value when the result of the formula is recalculated." and you should be all set.

What I was trying to do is to have a function pull the system date to a text box and lock it so that it never refreshes when the infopath document is reopened or resaved. Is there a way that I can do that before the submission to the Sharepoint Document library because we want the document names to be lik  concat(CustomerName, " - ...

 Thank You warrtalon.The way I found using code was put the XDocument.DataAdapters("Submit"); inside the OnSaveRequest function. The problem is that I had to save to have the form submitted. I would like to submit and have it saved. Thanks