SharePoint Designer Workflow and Infopath form

Hi,
I created a workflow that moves an item form one list to another and automatically populates the fields in list No.2. This works ok.
The next stage of the process is for the user to go to list No.2 and complete the rest of the fields manually. In order to do this an InfoPath Form was created. Some of the fileds in the Form are already pre-populated as they were "moved" from
list No. 1 by the workflow. However, not all of them - some of the list fields could not be moved to the InfoPath form (People or Group field type), even though they were automatically populated in list No. 2 by the workflow.
So now in a Form some of the fields are pre-populated and some are not. What is more, they are sort of "blocked" and I cannot enter data even manually.
Is there any remedy to that? I mean - is there a way to have all the fields that were "moved" from list No 1. displayed in an Infopath form for List No. 2?
I will be grateful for any suggestions.
Thank you.
Jowita

Dear Jowita,
This is very much possible with following way assumed that your list 2 is form library:
1. Whatever fields that you wanted to populate under list no.2 and make them available in InfoPath form, first you need to promote fields as columns (does not create columns directly in list/library and expect them to be in form) in the list
as shown in below link:
http://www.bizsupportonline.net/blog/2014/promote-infopath-form-fields-to-sharepoint-library.htm
2. Now, whenever you will set fields by workflow from list no.1, you will update the fields which were promoted. they will be available in the InfoPath form.
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