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I recently put together a presentation on my experience in New York / New Jersey over the course of a 9 (or maybe 10) month project trying to migrate SharePoint data from one company to another, and then into the cloud. I gave this presentation at the Office 365 Saturday event in Sydney, Australia on …

A while ago Microsoft announced the end of life for the InfoPath product in the Office suite. Since that time, Office 2016 has been released, and there’s still a large demand for the InfoPath product by a number of my colleagues and clients alike. Microsoft has not produced a new version of InfoPath for the …

I recently ran into a scenario where a client was getting an InfoPath error after a while, when up until this point the form had been working without fail. This can actually be surfaced as one of two error messages. The details of the errors can be seen below.     Either… “The amount of …

At one point a client asked me to disable a dropdown field in an InfoPath form when that field was empty. Unfortunately this isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here’s my rather roundabout way of solving the problem, which works, but isn’t pretty.     You need to start by creating a second (companion) field, …

I ran into an issue where an InfoPath 2013 form had some Decimal (double) fields, and they were nicely displayed as currency in the View controls.  However when these fields were promoted as properties when the form got published to Office 365 SharePoint Online, the system automatically created SharePoint Number columns (which you cannot edit like normal metadata …

I like the InfoPath Rule Inspector for showing all the dependencies on a field or control.  But I’m not a fan of searching for keywords in it. So if you’re like me, then you might like my work around of printing to OneNote that does a great job of OCR and Search on the images. …

If you want to be able to create a “running comment” in InfoPath (having on field concatenated to another, again and again), it’s actually pretty easy if you know a few tricks (which I’ll describe below).  To do this, you’ll need a few ingredients at your disposal.  For some reason tonight I feel like baking …

The following question came up the other day. If I have a SharePoint list with an InfoPath form (front-end) on my Office 365 site (obviously built by a user with sufficient permissions to design such a form), can my K level (Kiosk) users fill that form in? In our case, a customer wanted to have …

This is a good (albeit poor-English) article on how to setup cascading dropdowns in InfoPath 2010.  http://basquang.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/cascading-drop-down-list-in-sharepoint-2010-using-infopath-2010/