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 thanks again as always for your quick response Hilary, I had tried ../preceding-sibling::my:SharePointListItem_RW/my:/pc:Person/pc:AccountId, but not ../../../preceding-sibling::my:SharePointListItem_RW/my:Editor/pc:Person/pc:AccountId  (so with the editor and extra syntax) I will give it a go as soon as I can ...

 Hi again Hilary, first of all thanks again for all your help - by now the form is pretty much where it should be, and we've managed to solve all our (old and new) problems along the way. Regarding the people picker though, if we cannot put it in the secondary XML file, do you know if it is at least possible to have it populate with the ...

 Hi Dottie, Glad you figured it out, sad to say I'm having the same problem, and unsure how to solve it - perhaps you could show exactly what you did, or upload a template? Would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance, and kind regards!

 Ah that's a shame: I'd ask why, but I'm sure there is a good (and likely complicated) reason for it... I might try to add a people picker in a separate repeating section that's not backed by the secondary data connection then, just in case - will report if I get anywhere. Otherwise will have to settle for a text field I ...

 Hi Hilary, thanks again for your quick response and help - happy to say I've found what you're looking for (was kind of playing around with that already if I'm honest) - and I think I can manage to get most of my form working as soon as I set up individual form load and form submit rules for each field :) The only thing I am ...

 Hi Hilary, So back again if that's alright - trying to add more fields to our header that includes person name (the one we want to only need filling in once), but unsure of how to do that. Am I right to believe we can add those fields to the same xml file and secondary data connection, instead of having to create a new one for each ...

 Hi Hilary, Most importantly, I had a test and it works now! (both in preview and by adding a new document). Thank you so much for your assistance, you're a life saver :) Too be honest though your description of what you did is still went a little over my head, but will have a look to see if I can track down what you did in the ...

 thanks so much, appreciate it! curious to see what you come up with :)

 Yes, I double-checked to be sure: I've published again, and the only rule I have set is the one for the section I don't want to show up (the one that has PersonName, it has the "count(preceding-sibling::my:SharePointListItem_RW) > 0" rule to hide it) - since it works in preview mode (and even submits the data properly in ...

Hang on, the form now does exactly what I need when I use it in infopath´s preview mode (also allows me to submit to the sharepoint list i need, and it turns out correctly), but when I try to add a ´new document´ within the SharePoint list (so in browser) the form doesn´t work properly anymore? (it removes the personname every time i fill any ...