InfoPath Dev

Hi, We have been designing several InfoPath form templates and published them to a SharePoint library. Now, one of the templates makes our hair pretty grey… we have not been able to upload it at all. SP tries for 20 minutes, and then returns the following message: Error Request timed out. Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. Correlation ID: f6cefa6e-e5f2-4616-9f4b-bbc61f74f499 Date and Time: 12/21/2011 8:57:02 AM The form template has no code and is quite small, approximately 230 kb, yet they are very complex regards to rules, validations and conditional formatting. All the form templates are based on an xml schema, and they are browser-enabled. I should also mention that we use InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint 2010. One of our theories is that we have to increase the timeout settings, because the other form templates also use long time to upload. Obviously there is a 20 minute interval somewhere. Can this be increased? How? There may be some other reasons the upload takes so long time. Any ideas? We have already tried to configure InfoPath Forms Services, by increasing the number of postbacks and number of actions. We have also tried to increase the Maximum size of user session data. Regards, Mette and Kristin

Hello Mette and Kristin -

How many times have you built and deployed this form? You may want to look in the FEATURES folder for a feature that starts with "FT-(GUID)". For some reason SP stores multiple copies of the form and over time it takes longer and longer to deploy the form. My form is ~700KB with lots of views and rules and the folder on my DEV server is over 3GB. I tried deleting the older versions but the config database ran out of room during this operation. So I haven't come back it to yet. It's one of my New Years resolutions to figure out. ;-)

Here is a link to another post that explains more about this folder. http://www.infopathdev.com/forums/p/21051/72928.aspx I recall increasing the timeout in the web.config file to 300 some time ago which seem to solve the problem for me.

Let me know if this helps.
Scott

Sorry for late reply, your suggestion did not seem to make any difference for us, and the feature folder was not that big either. Now we are converting the form template into IP 2010, and hope that will make the difference :)