InfoPath option button publishes to SharePoint library as "single line of text", not "choice"

[Charlie Slack]

I am trying to create an infopath form that will require a supervisor
signature. The end user will fill out the form, submit it, and then the
supervisor is notified and they view the form and can "Approve" or "reject"
the form. However, in the worklow I am creating, I have the
pending/approve/reject section hidden until the next step of the workflow.
The form starts out with the state "pending" and has conditional formatting
to have that section hidden. when the user submits the form, I want a
workflow to set the state to something other than pending so that when the
supervisor gets notified of the form for approval, that field is now
viewable by the supervisor.

Any ideas?

I am struggling.

 

[sboyd]

I am trying to create an infopath form that will require a supervisor
signature.  The end user will fill out the form, submit it, and then the
supervisor is notified and they view the form and can "Approve" or "reject"
the form.  However, in the worklow I am creating, I have the
pending/approve/reject section hidden until the next step of the workflow..
The form starts out with the state "pending" and has conditional formatting
to have that section hidden.  when the user submits the form, I want a
workflow to set the state to something other than pending so that when the
supervisor gets notified of the form for approval, that field is now
viewable by the supervisor.

Any ideas?

I am struggling.

I have only been using InfoPath for a year now but I have experienced
similar problems. I have found that setting up groups and adding
fields that will capture information such as populating a time field
when the form was submitted, set a value in a field, true or false
fields, check whether a field is blank or not; will allow quite a bit
of flexability on when to set a value or show another section, etc.
Just remember to not check the box on the rule to stop the processing
until the form has gone thru all of the rules; otherwise, it will stop
at the point the last rule is checked.