I have a workflow that has a form where datafields would be hard to manage (80 of them) and the data is not really normalized for a smart object. Instead we used xmldatafields. I don't have time to pretty this up but wanted to post my notes.  I hope they help you. Things to know, use client connection not management ...

Hello All, I would like to know if there is a way to get the data fields created for a process in infopath? e.g. I have created some data fields for a process, where I can store temporary data during the process. I want to retrieve them in Infopath. Is there any method that can access these fields? Thanks in advance