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Re: InfoPath 2007 Export Automation

Greg Collins — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:42:53 GMT

Glad we could help you.

Re: InfoPath 2007 Export Automation

Nancy Young — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:07:51 GMT

Thanks for the smack upside the head - we did indeed have validation errors in the UNSAVED (we would have found it in the client app when we tried to save) form, from which we tried to PDF a view.

nsy

Re: InfoPath 2007 Export Automation - Export as PDF

RW5207 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:22:30 GMT

I am using currentview.export to export the current view of the form to a pdf file. I have been having mixed results. Sometimes it works, other times I get an error. The error I'm getting at the moment, and displaying in a message box is

"InfoPath has encountered an error. The operation failed."

"InfoPath cannot export the form."

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."

The filename I'm exporting to is C:\InfoPath\TestForm.pdf. I thought at first I encountered a filename length limitation of some sort, because it was failing every time I exported a file whose name was > 40 characters. Now, however, I'm getting the error on short file names.

I have created a very simple form with nothing on it except a text box and a few buttons. I can debug the code and catch the error in the code:

this.CurrentView.Export(xpsFormName, ExportFormat.Pdf);

The xpsFormName variable shows that it has a valid filename. Overall, it should be pretty simple. I'm just wondering why, at times (now more often) I'm getting this error. I'm also programmatically writing the XML file to the same folder and that is working just fine. It appears to be something unique to the export as PDF function (yes, I have the extension installed).

Full trust is selected, the form is digitially signed and it works sometimes.

Could it be that it's having a problem loading the assembly that provides the conversion?

Re: InfoPath 2007 Export Automation

Greg Collins — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:40:34 GMT

I've never used this feature yet, but due to the randomness, a wild-guess would be to check whether having errors in the form might be the source of your trouble (i.e. required fields not being filled in). I wouldn't expect this to be a problem, but hey--you never know!

InfoPath 2007 Export Automation

asms — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:45:44 GMT

Hi,
I am trying to automate InfoPath 2007 PDF export operation in a windows application.
I am using a FormControl to open an InfoPath form and then do the export using

FormControl1.XmlForm.CurrentView.Export("C:\myForm.pdf", format)

this sometimes works and sometimes gives an exception. Here I cant figure out a pattern :-(

InfoPath has encountered an error. The operation failed.

InfoPath cannot export the form.
The parameter is incorrect.

Could anyone help me figure out what is going wrong here?
Thanks in advance
ASMS