InfoPath Dev

 Do you have check-in and check-out turned on for the document library where the infopath form goes to? If so, I think this might be causing Sharepoint to provide the form to the user as Read Only. They need to 'check-out' first.

I made a change to your structure to demonstrate a way I handle 'Other' requirements of a field sometimes. It also simplified the data validation needed as bit. I believe this does what you want, however, I suspect that your datasource structure may be more complicated than it needs to be, but that would depend on the rest of the form ...

 Does this sample help?

Well, I have the header footer feature working well - but it's not persistent enough. I've tried numerous configurations of <xsl:apply-templates select="xxx" mode="xd:preserve"> and <xsl:template match="xxx" mode="xd:preserve"> to enable me to wrap a view in a table/thead combination ...

Thanks for having a look Hilary :-) I will have to add an instruction that it expects to work with network drive published forms. Sharepoint or other types of form template I am not familiar with unfortunately. Your suggestions are exactly what I am looking for - I will definitely fix the file extension being added if user does not provide ...

Thank you :-) I'll be adding more - The next two features: * View tweaks - convert other controls to Text Boxes. Bulk change fonts. * Header Footer - modify a view to have fully formatted/dynamic Header and Footer for printing. Now I think about it - most of the functions are geared towards print view improvements - but maybe other uses can ...

Before anything: I am creating this and testing it on my own forms - but I cannot guarantee anything won't go wrong - please backup templates before modifying using this toolkit! Hi IPDev community. I want to contribute a little toolkit of techniques, hacks, tools for Infopath to this website/forum. I'm only coming into this with ...

Great, thanks for the blogging access. It's all stemmed from that THEAD hack for table headers I posted a while ago. The short of it is you wrap the entire <BODY> of a view's xsl in a <TABLE><THEAD> set of tags. :-D Now it has a quirk where it makes the View look 'ugly' with borders normally invisible showing up ...

I want to know, because I've got some tweaks which lets you have formatted (as in any formatting) dynamic headers and footers with fields/calculated values/whatever. I just want to know whether it's worth setting up a tutorial for it if 2007/2010 already supports this.  Thanks.

I did some experimenting today with a proof of concept. The outcome is two templates. Template 1 is a simple 'rich content section creator' where you write up your paragraphs/sections whatever that you want to later select from to construct a document. The sections can have 'variables' by surrounding a variable name in square ...