Site Content Type disappeared

SusanP — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:41:54 GMT

I have been doing the same thing for years: Publish a browser-enabled InfoPath 2010 form template to a SharePoint 2010 Site Content Type (SCT), then associate that STC to one or more form libraries. Works fairly well. I do have to be careful if I create another STC that uses the same columns – I must be sure to promote the InfoPath fields to existing site columns (instead of allowing creation of new [duplicate!] columns).

Have run into an anomaly on latest site – I published a new SCT, and then associated it with 3 form libraries. Wrote simple SharePoint Designer workflows against the libraries. All was fine for about a week. I attempted to publish a change to the form. My SCT was not available in the publishing wizard. In Site Settings, my SCT had disappeared from Site Settings > Site Content Types. The SCT still shows as the only SCT in each of the three libraries. And the .xsn file is still where I published it (Site Assets). Now my only choice in the publishing wizard is to create a NEW SCT, but the existing site columns are not showing.

Seems like SharePoint hiccupped when updating an index somewhere. Any ideas?? Thanks.

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Site Content Type disappeared