hide a field on new item Sharepoint list infoPath form

thanks clayfox..this makes sense. I will give this a try...

Hi clayfox

I have applied above rule where in I have created a choice field, that will track the form mode.
I,.e New or Edit. and set the default value to New.

so in submit button (i.e Save button in list form) rules I said if the formmode= "New" or blank then set the Formmode = Edit

and in the formatting rule of the control I want to hide, I said if formmode = New then hide the control.

But it doesn't like it for some reason and is not working. The value is nor being set to Edit when a user has submitted the form. Is the choice field being problematic here? or can we actually set a field value while submitting?

Please advise,

Make sure that the rule to set the value to edit is above or before the submit or save. Otherwise it saves before it is set.

also promote the field temporarily to verify it is saved.

once you are sure that is working then you can troubleshoot the hide