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Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

swathip — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:13:32 GMT

Hi,

The XPath in the container attribute has some invalid characters. Make sure that XPath is correct.

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

cbrown00 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:57:54 GMT

Ok; I finally got into my .xsf file. One line containing the "group339_47" is posted below and shows suspect characters at the end of the line. Does the presence of the strange characters at the end of the line indicate an error?

<xsf:xmlToEdit name="group339_47" item="/my:myFields/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn-BySrfce" container="/my:myFields/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn/my:ä¯ŒÑ‹ê°´Ã€è›¤Ã€áš¼Ã€é¦„Ñ‚é¦„Ñ‚äŸœÑ‹">

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

Anuma — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:55:24 GMT

Hi, Rename your xsn file from template.xsn to template.cab. Now you can extract your file and then you can able to open your .xsf file in Note pad.

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

cbrown00 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:30:46 GMT

Great...how can I extract the .xsf file? Remember, it is not letting me open the file in Design Mode; so I can't use the "Save as Source Files" command. Is there another way to extract?

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

swathip — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:16:28 GMT

Yes. You can use Notepad editor to open the xsf.

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

cbrown00 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:09:21 GMT

I'm not a programmer. How can I access the .xsf file? In design mode, I know you can "save to source files" and it breaks the .xsn into all of its elements...but as stated, I can't get into design mode. After locating the .xsf, can I use MS NotePad to open .xsf?

Thanks.

Re: After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

swathip — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:49:23 GMT

Hi,

Open the .xsf file in any editor. Search for ‘group339_47' and try to verify the xmlToEdit element. Is it same as the other fields or not.

Note: Make sure to have a back up file before doing this.

After Changing Bindings, Can't Open Form in Design Mode

cbrown00 — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:31:00 GMT

I'm doing some re-work in InfoPath 2007 of an existing form made with InfoPath 2007. I rearranged some bindings in / out of optional & repeating groups, and copied some of the controls to a new view. When finished, everything worked fine in preview mode (all controls; all views), and the logic checker showed no errors. I saved the file.

Now when I attempt to open the .xsn file using "Design" command to access it, I get the following message:

InfoPath has encountered an error. The operation failed.

The form will then not open up in design mode.

If I use the "Open" command as if to fill out the form, it opens fine. However, when I attempt to access the new view, I get the following error message:

Some rules were not applied.

InfoPath cannot open the view. The form definition (.xsf) file has an error on the following element or attribute: xsf:xmlToEdit

Error: the following attribute is incorrect: container in the xmlToEdit element with name = "group339_47"

The view does not open, but all the other views work fine.

Is there a "back door" way to get to the design view to either erase the view, or delete the controls + bindings that appear to be causing the problem?