Please see the description of what I would like to achieve:
I am Sharepoint 2007, and using infopath 2010 to make a sharepoint 2007 compatible form
I need to batch update fields of one or more documents that share a "common id". These files might live in different folders inside a document library.
What I envision is having an infopath form that would let a user select the common sequence number from a drop down list. Then there would be fields to enter desired information to fill in the blank fields with like date submitted, for example.
Upon entering the values and clicking submit, all the documents sharing the common id would get the same fields tagged with the information inputted. So lets say I filter on documents sharing common Id of 123, and i put in a date, after hitting submit, it should write the date entered to all the files sharing the common id in their date field.
I am having trouble figuring out how to do this with infopath. I would love to be able to intergrate this filtered lookup solution, because our document library is quite large and only going to get bigger and server side filtering would be ideal: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointinfopath/thread/403e6f25-ff23-472c-b414-c17866607181
It is pretty overwhelming for me, especially trying to make sense of examples not quite related to my problem and trying to adjust to make it fit.
Thanks for your time and looking. Please let me know if anything is unclear or if I'm just blind and this solution has been posted many times over ;-)