InfoPath Dev

I've seen a few messages about this error around the place and nobody seems to know how to fix it.

I've got users who are updating infopath forms stored on a form library.  Every now and then they get the following error:

The form cannot be submitted to the following location: http://internalurl/MyForm.xml

The file is in use by another application or user. 

The files are not being used by other people.

Anybody found a fix fo this problem?

Cheers.

first error "Infopath cannot submit the form. an error occurred while the form was being submitted" can be caused by various things. e.g. submit code failing, adequate permissions not available on server, server too busy, server not available...

"the file is in use by another application or user" some times the forms get checked out and are not checked in, that is when these sort of errors come, or the form could be actually used by someone else...

The form does actually submit and a workflow runs sending notifications that the form has been updated.  The modified, and modified by fields are even updated correctly.

So its none of the problems you've suggested.  It's a random error that is not possible to reproduce with certainty.

you mean to say that even if the user recieves the error message, the form gets updated in the doc lib. that sounds sort of strange.

are you using managed code to submit the forms,

can you attach (reply -> options ->add/update)  the template so that we can have a look at it and might be find out what might be going wrong.

Are you using alternate access mapping for the site?

For example, "intranet:66666" and "myhost.mydomain.local" and "myhost" all point to the same site collection. If the form's dataconnection points to "myhost," and user accesses a previously submitted form with IE at the hostname "intranet:66666" the form will open, but the new Submit opperation will fail. Saving the changes still works. If the user accesses the same form with IE using hostname "myhost" the re-submit works fine.

In my case, I'm emailing the second user a link with a SharePoint Designer workflow. The workflow link ("Encoded Absolute URL") gives the "intranet:66666" hostname that no one uses. Anyone have an "easy" fix for that? I can build a dynamic string in the Designer workflow with the correct URL, but it would be nicer if Designer fetched the friendly hostname.

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