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?
