InfoPath Dev

@JAxkooki-- I'm looking to do something similar. I have an employee status change form I created where you can search for the employee you're looking for through search fields (screen shot below). Any recommendations you can make on building in the ability to throw a wildcard in would be helpful (i.e., if you're searching by ...

Note, we are on the cloud so we don't have access to a SharePoint Server. I seemed to hit a snag when trying to use the "People Picker" function so this is what I came up with as a workaround.

(APOLOGIES IF THIS POST EXIST SOMEWHERE ELSE!) When building an employee status change form in IP, I added in an "employee search" functionality tied back to an XML file which is updated frequently from AD. Some search options are "Employee ID", "Employee First Name", "Employee Last Name", "Manager ...

Thanks, Ted.  I guess my question at this point is let's say in my InfoPath form I have three empty text fields that relate to the workflow.  So once somebody clicks the "Submit for Approval" button on my form, the form is sent in "serial" fashion to 1st Approver, then once it's approved it's ...

First and foremost, I've never built a workflow before and I know very, very little about it.  I also know nothing about code so if the end result is, "Get your IT department involved", I can live with that. Ok, so I've built an "Employee Status Change Form" in InfoPath and want to do a bunch of different things ...

Hilary - you saved my sanity!!!  Thanks a bunch for the advice and help.  This is going to be very helpful for our team.

So regardless of what I select from the position long text drop-down box, it returns the position short text as Acct,Tax3 (because that's the first on the list), the job ID as 20159818 (because that's the first on the list) and the job name as Tax Accountant III (because that's the first on the list).  It almost like the drop down ...

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This is the form on SharePoint

Alright, attached.  As you can see, I'm really starting from square one....