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Thanks for your quick reply, really appreciate it. When you say 'set status' , what Rule type (formatting, action etc) needs to apply and how on each button? Because i can only create 'Formatting' rule type and not the 'Action' rule type (which is always disabled). I am able to create Actions but they don't seem to ...

Sorry Hilary, one problem identified. When adding a new person it all works great except for the Surname field. If you click it hightlights the whole area as blue and doesnt allow you to type anything. All the other fields work correctly. I attached a screenshot

 Fantastic Hilary. Excellent response

Here's a fixed up copy. Save the linked file locally, right click the saved file & select Design to open in design mode. I moved your field into the repeating group in the form's schema (also did that for your file attachment control that looked like you wanted it repeating). I see you have given some fields names - be sure before you ...

Oh, I usually add a status field for something like this. Save button sets status to Saved, submit button sets status to Submitted. Workflow to send email then has a condition that checks that status is equal to submitted prior to sending the email. Make sense?

 Thanks Hilary, much appreciated   Attached as requested  Roly   

Hi there, i am new to InfoPath 2013 and looking for solution. I have created weekly report list in SharePoint and then created InfoPath Form template published on the same document library. The Form works ok as expected once the team member completes the form and saves it saves in the SharePoint list. I was able to create the Save button on ...

Got it - yep, same thing happens on mine. So - here's what worked for me. On the rule on the repeating group (my:SharePointListItem_RW), add a condition to only run the rule if the DisplayName field is blank. I think when the form loads in the browser to edit, the rules on the repeating group are executing, setting the first instance to blank, ...

Thanks Hilary. I've been able to get around the max ID issue by creating a workflow in SharePoint which increments a record in a different table which keeps track of the max ID. Then InfoPath only has to query the one record from the "supporting table" to get the max ID and autonumber accordingly. Hopefully we'll see a slight ...