radio button selection dont save; paragraphs smash together

[Joni S]

Hello. I have used the Perf Appraisal template form and modified it somewhat
and have retained the radio buttons for ratings with different categories.
When a person saves the form to their own personal folder, the form reverts
back to the N/A radio button and does not save their selected ratings. Please
advise? Also, they wanted paragraph breaks in the text portion of the form
and I added those; they type their response and use paragraphs and/or bullets
and then after they save and reopen, the paragraphs are gone and all text is
mashed together. Do you know how I can fix both of these issues? Thanks so
much!! Getting closer to the final form. We're in a time crunch however.

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

Are you using the Service Pack 1 update version? The issue with paragraphs
disappearing sounds like something that we fixed with that release.

I don't know about the radio button issue, but it could be related.

Brian

 

[Michelle]

Do you have any rules on the radio button field that might set the value when
the form is loaded?

 

[Mauryaguru]

Brian:

I have a similar problem with paragraphs, I think I am using Service Pack 1.
Here is my problem:

Scenario:
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I have an Infopath form called "Issue". Any one Issue can have many child
Action Items. The Action Items are stored as a separate SharePoint List.
Action Items are filled out on a separate form called "Action Item". From the
parent Issue Form, I query the SharePoint List of Action Items, and display
all the Action Items in the Issue form.

An Action Item form has two controls:
1) A Text Box field called "Details"
2) A File Attachment field called "Attachment"

In the Issue form, I have a repeating section with contols, to hold the
queried Action Items.

Problem:
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1) One control in the repeating section to hold the queried Action Items is
a Text Box called "Details". This is bound to the Details field (obtained
using a Query of the Action items list) in the Action Item.

What I find is that the text obtained from the Query of the Action Items
List does not have any of the formatting that was originally entered in the
original Action Item form. (However, if I go to the original Action Item
form, the text in the Details text box is formatted nicely, just as when I
had originally filled the form).

When I say "FORMATTING", here is an example of what I mean: Let's suppose I
entered 2 paragraphs of text into the Details text box in the original Action
Items form, and separated the paragraphs with a full line of space by
pressing Enter. When this text is queried from the Issue form, the space
between the two paragraphs is eliminated, and the second paragraph starts
where the first ends. So if the first paragraph ends in the middle of a
line, the second begins in the middle of that line.

Even with "Paragraph Breaks" checked on the "Display" tab of the "Text Box
Properties" of the "Details" field in the repeating section to hold the
queried Action Items in the Issue form, the best I get in the queried text
for a whole line separating two paragraphs in the original text, is a mere
space.

How can I get the same text formatting in the queried text, as the original
text?

2) Is there any way I can query from the Issue form, or at least provide
some kind of link from the Issue form to, the attachment (could be file or
picture) attached to an Action Item in the Action Item form?

Thanks in advance. This is a bit urgent, so any help would be appreciated.

Mauryaguru