OMG - INFOPATH 2003 SUCKS!!!!!!
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I am in despirate need of some help. I am stuck developing this stupid Infopath form in 2003. I cannot upgrade to 2007 because the company doesn't own it. The problem I am having is enough to make a saint swear! I have removed several fields on this form. Some of the removed fields were required before submission of the form in an email. Since the priorities have changed, they no longer needed these fields. I deleted the fields, cells they were in, and eventually even the column. Now, this POS software is trying to validate against the fields that no longer exist. When the user fills out the form and puts the required data into the EXISTING required fields, everything looks fine. When they try to submit this form, the form begins its validation check. It, for some stupid reason, is still trying to validate the missing fields. This is not missing data, mind you, but the fields are GONE!!! How do I make this stop? I am so sick of this form but it's in my lap, whether or not I like. Please, someone out there, tell me how to fix this &!%#%!+~ problem before I throw this computer out the window! Thanks,
JamminJimE Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Why are we still calling it Common Sense when it's just not that common? -
I am in despirate need of some help. I am stuck developing this stupid Infopath form in 2003. I cannot upgrade to 2007 because the company doesn't own it. The problem I am having is enough to make a saint swear! I have removed several fields on this form. Some of the removed fields were required before submission of the form in an email. Since the priorities have changed, they no longer needed these fields. I deleted the fields, cells they were in, and eventually even the column. Now, this POS software is trying to validate against the fields that no longer exist. When the user fills out the form and puts the required data into the EXISTING required fields, everything looks fine. When they try to submit this form, the form begins its validation check. It, for some stupid reason, is still trying to validate the missing fields. This is not missing data, mind you, but the fields are GONE!!! How do I make this stop? I am so sick of this form but it's in my lap, whether or not I like. Please, someone out there, tell me how to fix this &!%#%!+~ problem before I throw this computer out the window! Thanks,
JamminJimE Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Why are we still calling it Common Sense when it's just not that common?Well, I guess that there are times that being a developer, we take things for granted. InfoPath 2003 has the setup alot like a big dataset. When you create a textbox on the form, there is a data connection built automatically. In any other IDE, when you delete a control, you kill its references. NOT SO IN INFOPATH 2003. You can delete a field all you like, you can even delete the container that the field was in. HOWEVER, it does NOT remove the data connection. When you save the form and attempt to validate your data, it will still see the data connections to those missing fields. THE FIX ----------------------- When you delete a field from an InfoPath 2003 form, write down the name of the field. Go to View -> Data Connections. This will list all of those connections to the data source. You HAVE to manually delete the data connection in here as well. Otherwise, it will keep trying to validate the missing field. I hope that someone else can learn from my beating my head against a wall for 2 days. Happy coding,
JamminJimE Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Why are we still calling it Common Sense when it's just not that common?