unable to open view during design time.

[Nick Monsour]

HELP PLEASE!!!!!!
This has happened several times to me in the past couple of weeks. As I
am designing a form somewhere along the line one of the views becomes
disabled. I am not doing anything unusual but it keeps happening. Has
this happened to anyone else?
Is there a fix?

I am getting tired of remaking a form over and over not to mention the
time loss.

Thanks
Nick

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

How do you mean "disabled"? Is there a specific error message given to you
when you try to switch to that view while designing it? Can you just not
click on the view in the task pane?

Brian

 

[Nick Monsour]

The message is "Microsoft Office InfoPath cannot open the selected
form". This occurs while I am either adding or changing a data binding
or adding a jif toe a view page. Then I just tried to add a new view
since I had all of the data connections there and as I start to alter
the above mentioned things I get this error again on the new view. You
got me. I am not doing anything unusual.

 

[Nick Monsour]

Brian,

Could this have anything to do with it: "You have chosen to bind a
non-repeating control to a repeating field or group? This control will
be bound to the first item in the repeating field or group. Do you wish
to continue?"

The form I am creating has information for system users and on the top
of the form I have a separate section to have a date and time of the
form creation put into the SQL DB that I turn into a text box that is
read only so that users can't alter it.
I'm just fishing for a reason/cause.

Thanks

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

Thanks for mentioning that. Unfortunately, you've stumbled onto an issue
with exactly what you did (binding a non-repeating control to a repeating
field) which causes the view to become unopenable later.

You should be able to work around the problem by choosing the repeating
section, then turning off the ability for users to insert and remove from
the repeating section. The end result will be nearly the same.

Sorry,
Brian

 

[Nick Monsour]

THanks Brian,

I finally figured it out after a few more tries. I appreciate all of
your help.

Nick