InfoPath Dev

 You can do it this way - http://samsharepoint.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/infopath-get-the-current-user-without-writing-code/   As far as I know we all pretty much used it from this site - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2007/04/05/InfoPath-_2D00_-Get-the-current-user-without-writing-code.aspx . Yet it seems to be down ...

I assume you mean form library, not a list. Check the permissions on the library. You may not have permission to contribute to the library. Check your submit data connection i.e. does the url of the library actually open up the library in the browser?

 The attachment is saved within the form.

You'll need 2 sections. Each section has its own attachment field. Section1 default section Section 2 - "Read Only" You'll also need a read-only field i.e check box/hidden text box etc with a  default value of 0 i.e. hide   On the attachment field which is inside Section 2, select the attachment ...

If this form isn't attached to anything, why not publish it to a form library and publish the columns that are required to be seen in a library?

I've found this kind of thing tricky in SharePoint let along InfoPath. As perhaps you've discovered there are many places for lots of data, much of it the same and repeated Why not create a SQL database/view(s)? Then all information would be correct and in 1 place. Then  you could at least use that as ...

All, This is my first foray into Excel Web Services in conjunction with InfoPath form. I want to achieve the following - use the values in an InfoPath form to update an excel spread sheet, then show an excel graph in InfoPath. like this.  I've followed the following the msdn blog here after struggling with my own ...

 Depending on how you have your submitting set up  a straight forward 'make mandatory' doesn't work for a form   http://mikesnotebook.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/infopath-submit-options-and-form-validation/ 

 Why not alter the text box properties>display>Multi-Line, users can then enter there own carriage return i.e. press return/enter to make the text 'look pretty'. The only other way would be to create a button which would input a carriage return field. The field would contain a specific default value, which equals the ...

 Ah OK - I don't use forms via email. All my forms are used via SharePoint and web pages. Your rules on the dropdown were formatting rules and incomplete. A/Your drop down automatically clear on a change of value. I add a dummy field to see what was happening to the drop down box when I selected a new value, it was changing it's ...