Infopath 2010: button action rules deletes automatically upon saving or using rule inspector

Hi,
I have been working on Infopath 2010 for a few months and I have developed a form with some controls, views and buttons. In my form I have 4 buttons 'Save as draft' , 'Submit' 'Reset' and 'Cancel'. I am using all the buttons with action type as 'Rules and
Code'. Except for Reset button, the actions & formatting on three buttons is rules only.
The problem is when I save this form or I run Rule Inspector on form, I see that all the action rules from these buttons disappear. I do not see any error in Rule inspector because the action rules attached to these button disappear before Rule inspector
even starts. same is the case with Save.
To test if its a problem with a rule, I had built another form with the same fields and actions/formatting for this form. But that form seems to work without any problem and none of the rules get deleted. The reason I want to stick to my old form template
is because I am using this form in LIVE and changing a form template will mean changing all GUIDs in the forms that have been on LIVE and in workflow already.
Can somebody help me find a way to solve this problem.
Regards
P

Hi PoojaGandhi,
Strange problem.
Validation, Calculated default values, actions and programming can display in Rule Inspector, and formatting rules will not display here, so it
is normal that we can't see rules in Rule Inspector if we created some formatting rules.
If you have also action rules in the form, can you see these actions in Manage rules pane or will these rules work even we can't see it? How about
add rules to a new button (in a new view), will it missing?
If the problem persists, the form may corrupt. And please create a new form instead.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Best regards,
Emir
Emir Liu
TechNet Community Support

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