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Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

andrewc — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:11:09 GMT

I did exactly that and it worked. Thank you very much for the help.

And thank you for the advice as well, this is the first time I have ever used infopath, and I think I will continue to use it for many things in the future. Every little bit counts :)

Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

Hilary Stoupa — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:08:40 GMT

It has something to do with the two buttons at the top of the Provider View - when I removed those, it previewed. I'm not sure what the issue is - I didn't see anything right off, but it does seem that one of the buttons has the same control ID as a button on another view (which I have done before in forms w/ code, so I'm not sure why that would cause an issue). At any rate, remove those two buttons (not the Submit one, the other two) and try again - if it previews / opens, add the buttons back on and re-add the logic.

As an aside, you'll want to rename your data source fields so they have meaningful names, and you have the same field for answers to question 16 & 18 in the Provider view - not sure if that is intentional or not - forgive the un-asked for advice. :-)

Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

andrewc — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:52:51 GMT

Here it is. Thank you.

Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:19:16 GMT

Euw, catastrophic failure again. Want to attach your template under the Options tab? I'll see if I can get it to behave.

Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

andrewc — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:07:10 GMT

Here is a screenshot of that.

Thank you for taking a look. Please let me know what other information you may need.

Re: Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:54:20 GMT

Ooooh! Catastrophic failure. That isn't helpful at all. Can you try double clicking the .xsn file so the form tries to open and see if you get a different error with additional information?

Help? Error message on preview: "The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View Catastrophic Failure"

andrewc — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:39:46 GMT

When I hit preview, I get:

Infopath cannot open the form.

The form template is not valid.

Under more details:

The form definition (.xsf) file contains an error in the xsf:view element for the following view: Provider View
Catastrophic failure

Any help is greatly appreciated. I cannot seem to find anything about this anywhere.