David Mellors » infopath 2007 http://www.wahooga.com Personal Blog Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:55:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The form has been closed / The specified form cannot be found – SharePoint 2007 http://www.wahooga.com/2010/03/30/the-form-has-been-closed-the-specified-form-cannot-be-found-sharepoint-2007/ http://www.wahooga.com/2010/03/30/the-form-has-been-closed-the-specified-form-cannot-be-found-sharepoint-2007/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:13:09 +0000 Dave Mellors http://www.wahooga.com/?p=324
Having created my InfoPath 2007 Form, created my workflow in Visual Studio 2008 and clicked Deploy I found that my workflow went to In Progress but the Instantiation Form never displayed in SharePoint and all I got was a message “The form has been closed” on the screen. Looking in the log files I could see an error

Exception occurred during request processing. (User: MOSSDEV86\Administrator, Form Name: , IP: , Request:  Form ID: , Type: InfoPathLocalizedException, Exception Message: The specified form cannot be found.)

Looking in Central Administration > Application Management > Manage Form Templates I could see my workflow, status ready and workflow enabled but I still kept getting “The form has been closed”. After a reasonable amount swearing and pulling out of hair I realised that the Form ID specified in Manage Form Templates was different to the one I used in my workflow.xml file. HOW?????

Well, I was saving my InfoPath form and look at the properties to get the URN and then publishing the file to get deployed with my code. What I hadn’t realised was that when you publish the form you then get a different URN!

REMEMBER: Use the URN from the published form and not from the saved one!!!

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