Controlling Merging and Form Submission

The General tab of the Form Options dialog box has an Enable Forms Merging check box that’s selected by default. If your form isn’t designed specifically for merging, clear the check box to prevent users from inadvertently or deliberately merging data documents. As examples, RSS 2.0 data documents you create with Rss2v4.xsn are designed for merging, but merging is totally inappropriate for documents you create with the Northwind Order Entry form examples. Clearing the Enable Forms Merging check box disables the File, Merge Forms menu option in data entry mode.

Submitting forms to SharePoint form libraries, databases, and XML Web services are advanced topics that are covered in later chapters, but you should ...

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