Forms always marked as need update in Sharepoint designer 2010

Some of the automatically generated task forms in Sharepoint designer are marked 'needs update', when I open them in Infopath I get the dialog that says:
One or more fields in the workflow form have changed. InfoPath will now update the set of available fields. You may need to modify your form view to add or remove the updated fields.
Making a change and publishing it gives a 'publish sucessful' confirmation dialog but the modified date on the form in Sharepoint designer doesn't update and is still marked as needing an update even after I refresh it. Closing and reopening it gives an updated
modification date but the form is still marked as needing an update. What am I missing here?

Hi ,
I understand that some task forms in your workflow are marked ‘needs update ’even though you have published the changes in InfoPath designer . Can you have a test like this :Create a new workflow with the ‘Start Approval Process ’ action .Publish the workflow
.Then open the task form in InfoPath designer to see whether the ‘need update’ message will show up .
I have met this situation once ,after I restart SharePoint Designer and InfoPath .The problem solves .
Thanks,
Entan Ming
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Dear all,
I am very new to Sharepoint designer 2010. Its better to say, i am just stepping in.
I have sharepoint site which is accessible for all the users to update few information. But i want this site not to be accessible during a date range, say from 15th to 20th of every month.
I am planning to have something like this: If any user tries to access this sharepoint site between 15th to 20th date range of everymonth, then the browser must show an pop-up alert saying "This site is not accessible during this date range" and Redirect
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Hi,
From your description, my understanding is that you want to redirect sharepoint site to another site between 15th and 20th every month.
I agree with what Sudip says. If you still want to use JS code,You could try these steps
below:
Open your site with SharePoint Designer.
Click Master Pages in left navigation.
Find file v4.master, and backup it(it is very important).
Right click your v4.master,
choose "Edit File in Adavance Mode".
Add the code below into the <head/> tag.
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script
type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDate(); // get current day
var id = _spPageContextInfo.userid; // get the id of current logon in user
var boolFlg = false;
$.ajax({
   url: _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/web/SiteGroups/GetByName(\'"+"sharepoint Owners"+"\')/Users", //get users in a specified group can access the sharepoint site from 15th to 20th every
month
   type: "GET",
   headers: {"accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"},
   success: function (data) {
      if (data.d.results) {
         var src = data.d.results;
         for(var i = 0; i < src.length; i++){
            if(src[i].userid==id){ //check the logon in user in the specified group or not
               boolFlg = false;
               break;
         if(!boolFlg){
            if(day <= 20 && day >=15){
                alert("This site is not accessible during this date range"); // alert the message
                location.href = "http:// somesitename.xx.com"; // redirect to another site
   error: function (xhr) {
      alert(xhr.status + ': ' + xhr.statusText);
})</script>
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Alright, but when I run the SPD 2013 RTM to test the creation of Sharepoint Workflow 2013, I get the following warning:
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While saving a workflow using SharePoint designer on a SharePoint site, I get the following error:
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Steps to recreate error:
Login to the WFE server hosting IIS and workflow manager, open SharePoint Designer 2013 and login to a SharePoint site.
Access the list using SharePoint Designer 2013, in the workflow section, click new workflow.
In the new workflow dialog, enter workflow details, click save (see screenshot below).
Error message is displayed as below:
After restarting SharePoint Designer, the saved workflow is not seen in the site/workflows or list/workflow section.
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Hi Vivek,
Please close your SharePoint Designer application, clear/delete the cached files and folders under the following directories from your server installed SharePoint Designer, then check results again.
<user profile>\appdata\roaming\microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache
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According to your description, my understanding is that you want to send email in workflow only when the item is created and the status is New.
For this issue, I suggest you create a new Yes/No column called “Edited”, and set the default value to No. When you edit it after creation, change the column to Yes.
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No, you do not have to edit the form from the master page. Master pages do not have forms on them. They define the layout and look-n-feel of a Sharepoint Site.
You said you are adding new column to the list in SPD. Why not in the site itself and then edit the form.?
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/sharepoint-designer-help/create-a-custom-list-form-using-sharepoint-designer-HA010378258.aspx
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Unable to Create Workflows with either SharePoint Designer 2010 or 2013 to our SharePoint Online Service

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I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on our current issue using SharePoint Online (hope this question is in the correct place)
We are using SharePoint Online and I believe we are using the SharePoint Plan 1 for EDU - which I believe is the A2 Free plan.
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Contact your server administrator for more information."
after this it tried loading some metadata and then I saw:
Server-side activities have been updated. You need to restart SharePoint Designer to use the updated version of activities.
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http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/74327.aspx
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You can first keep the list for the current status, and save it as a template which will be used to create another list.
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3.Type a File name, Template name, select Include Content, and click OK. Click OK.
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/2a3c022c-f924-4b38-be02-5c5ac7a2927e/cannot-open-sharepoint-site-using-sharepoint-designer-2010-get-a-popup-with-4-possible-causes?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/18006/sharepoint-designer-unable-to-open-web-site
http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/MS-SharePoint/Q_27968087.html
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/add-a-database-as-a-data-source-HA010355745.aspx
perhaps this link may help you in some way:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/0e4b5e49-49ef-4e6b-9ab8-ac954ab8d0be/how-do-i-add-c-to-webpage-in-sharepoint-designer?forum=sharepointcustomizationlegacy
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