InfoPath Dev

it doesn't do anything when i drag it ontop of the fields task pane - just changes my mouse to a "not permitted" cursor. i've attached my xsn file

In your InfoPath form, in design mode, in the Fields task pane, you should have a secondary data connection to your XML file. Drag that onto the form in design mode. Preview and make sure you can see the data you intend to submit - you may have to change some controls, etc. Attach the file under the Options tab in a reply if you need help. Then ...

thats correct - i have the web service setup as a submit data connection and the XML file as a data connection as well. If i drag the XML doc onto the form in the browser, it just opens up the XML doc in the browser. Sorry!! i'm new to this and i'm just learning this on the fly!

You are using the SharePoint List web service to create your list entry? Your post title indicates you are using CAML to submit - usually, I have secondary data source with the CAML schema? You can drag that data source onto the form so you can see your values you are submitting in the browser and compare to the filler?

Thanks for response. I think that the best what I can do in this situation is create standard InfoPath form and upload it to document libray, where it will be serving as document library form. In standard InfoPath form I won't have problems with multiple attachment's control.

sorry - i do not know what you mean by drag the CAML XML onto the form? if i manually add an entry into the list - there are no issues

I don't think it is - I think you are going to be pretty limited here due to the restrictions on data structure in list forms.

I think you are saying you want to submit repeating data to another list? Or library? InfoPath doesn't have, out of the box, any way to do this. You can use code, qRules or CAML for this - CAML is tricky but free, the code is pretty straightforward and if you search for submitting repeating InfoPath data to lists, you should be able to find ...

Do you suppose leap year is coming into play here at all? If you really just want to add years, let me know - you could do that with a substring formula, because incrementing the year is simple. XML dates are stored in yyyy-MM-dd format, so you can use substring-before to get just the year and increment it.... something like: ...

I can't imagine an Excel Calc. services error would have anything to do with the form's failure to submit to the list. If you drag your CAML XML onto the form when you submit, does all the data look ok? If you try to manually create a list item with the same data, do you succeed?