I designed a form for a client that had several different views, and I needed a way to display a specific view when the form was opened. This was easy, but took me a bit to figure out. Go to Tools > Form Options. Click the Open and Save option. Click the Rules button, and…

If you’ve used the InfoPath Contact Selector before, you might have seen that it does not support validation like other InfoPath controls do. There is no option on the Properties dialog for the control to make it a required field. To work around this, I used a combination of rules and conditional formatting to prevent…

I ran into a situation with some custom InfoPath Document Information Panels where I was getting schema validation errors like this one because of a Business Data Column I added to a document library: “…{guid}ColumnName is unexpected according to content model of parent element ‘documentManagement’.” You might run into this in the following situation: You…