Hello
You have missed a important point here that the Absence Request form has
code behind it . So when you change the category name in the designer, it is
not sufficient. You also need to change the same in the underlying code.

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Kalyan G Reddy
INFOPATH MVP 2007 and 2008
http://www.ggktech.com
> In the absence details and absence availability portion of the form, there
> are (6) exsisting catagories of absence built into the form. When you select
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> names it no longer reconizes the catagory and it will not do the updat. Any
> suggestions as to how I can get this done?