Can Not Publish from Infopath 2007 to MOSS - URL Not Valid

[marshallb]

No matter what we try we can not successfully publish any forms from Infopath
2007 to a MOSS server. We receive the error that "The following URL is not
valid"

We have uninstalled and recreated the MOSS server several times on different
computers and always the same results.

We also tried installed just the new Sharepoint Services 3.0 Beta and still
the same results.

We can publish to the MOSS server with Infopath 2003.

We have tried making very simple Infopath 2007 forms in case that was the
problem. Nothing seems to work.

Is this a bug that at this time that Infopath 2007 can not publish to
Sharepoint?

 

[hurtlingturtle]

Hi Marshall,
This is not a bug as I do this all the time.
However, what URL are using in InfoPath to publish to MOSS?
cheers
Bruce

 

[marshallb]

I have tried several and as I mentioned before my url works with Infopath 2003

I have tried:
http://entserver1:47801/sites/testform1 'Worked with Infopath 2003
http://entserver1:47801/sites/testform1/ 'Worked with Infopath 2003
http://entserver1:47801/sites/testform1/default.aspx
http://entserver1:47801/sites/
http://entserver1:47801/sites
http://entserver1:47801

 

[marshallb]

One other thing of note.

Both the MOSS Beta server and the client workstation with Office 2007 Beta
are running as virtual machines from virtual pc 2004

At our company we typically do not install Beta software on real hardware
but only on virtual machines.

Are there any issues with using these products on virtual machines or
special considerations in set up? The client machine can see the web site
without any problems. In fact I can add Word documents to a document library

 

[Madhur]

One other thing of note.

Both the MOSS Beta server and the client workstation with Office 2007
Beta are running as virtual machines from virtual pc 2004

At our company we typically do not install Beta software on real
hardware but only on virtual machines.

Are there any issues with using these products on virtual machines or
special considerations in set up? The client machine can see the web
site without any problems. In fact I can add Word documents to a
document library on the site without any problems. Just can not
publish an Infopath form.

Replied in other thread. See post

 

[Yoav]

Activate the infopath client. It worked for me.

Replied in other thread. See post

 

[joris]

Hello,

if you are running in VPC, try the "Net stop sens" -trick,

see

http://jopx.blogspot.com/2006/08/having-problems-with-moss-2007-in.html

Rgds,

Joris

 

[marshallb]

Already had done that.

Thanks for posting

 

[marshallb]

I had been to that sight and had tried it and it did not help.
--
Marshall Brandt

Hello,

if you are running in VPC, try the "Net stop sens" -trick,

see

http://jopx.blogspot.com/2006/08/having-problems-with-moss-2007-in.html

Rgds,

Joris

Activate the infopath client. It worked for me.

 

[marshallb]

To this point I have downloaded the programs a couple of times.

I have installed MOSS over a dozen time each time trying some different
configurations from stand alone to farm on 4 different computers. The same
for Office.

Also have tried the WSS 3.0 over a half a dozen times.

Tried different networks/domains/stand alone

All with the same result.

After checking around with other developers I know, all have the same
results.

After all of this that I have tried and since no developers that I know
personally have been successful with publishing Infopath 2007 to Sharepoint I
would have to conclude that this is far from being ready to gi live that
publishing is still a very fragile process that only works with a very
special configuration.

I have not been trying to do this alone I am working on a team with 2 other
developers and we all have many years of experience developing with Microsoft
products.

What is really frustrating for us is that when we looked at this product we
thought it would be a great electronic forms solution for our company.

We thought if we worked with the Beta now, by the time the product shipped
we would be able to start deploying production forms shortly after the
release.

But since we have not had even rudimentary success in getting anything going
with it we will probably have to rethink this and look at other products.

 

[hurtlingturtle]

Hi Marshall,
Although InfoPath has restrictions I have to say that MOSS is very
good. I am suprised to hear that you have struggled so.
The instructions that myself and 4 other developers all followed were
the ones in this article (great blog)
http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2006/04/10/572428.aspx

Although it says it's for beta1, with a little bit of thought and
flexibility you can quite happily follow them for beta2.
cheers
Bruce

 

[Yoav]

Marshallb-
I managed to get it working for a few times, and now after rebooting nothing
seems to help and i get the same error as you get "the following is not
valid".
I believe the problem is in the MOSS since i get some errors also when
trying to create and save a word document within MOSS:
I press the new button in a document library, Word then opens after a
security warning and when trying to save the new dcument, i get a dialog box
where i see my shared documents on my server , but pressing save gives the
following error:
This file cannot be saved to this location because there is not connectoin
to the server.Check your netwok connection and try again..


Did you solve your problem ?

 

[jmurray]

We too struggled with this for a few days and have what I believe is a
resolution. Our issue was related to the different "extended web
applications" we had and our "Shared Service Provider". The web apps were
not associated with the SSP, nor could we associate them (bug?).

So we created a new SSP, associated the appropriate (all) extended web apps
and the "Not a Valid URL" message has disappeared from our lives.

Hope this helps.

Jesse

 

[marshallb]

We finally got it working by using the Publish option as if we were going to
publish to a Network location. On the screen for the ACCESS PATH where it
asks "If all form users can access the location that you entered in the
previous step click next" On that screen we make sure that path is blank.

We then go to the Central Administration site\Application Management \
Infopath Forms Services and go to Manage Form Templates.

In there we upload the template from the network share where we published it
to.
Then we activate it to the site. Then we go into the site and then we can
add it there.

It works pretty good except we do not have anyway of publish some of the
fields of the form to show up on the web page.

 

[dansneddon]

I am having the same issue. I have tried reinstalling MOSS Beta 2 several
times, as well as creating various Web applications on various ports
(including port 80). My server is a virtual machine running under VMWare, but
it is connected to the Internet. I have tried the net stop sens trick with no
success.

I have tried every variation of URLs in Infopath, to no avail. I can create
and save Word documents to the SharePoint site, but Infopath 2007 can't
publish forms.

I am evaluating SharePoint for a fairly large customer, and publishing Web
forms is a required feature. Are there any suggested workarounds? Other than
buying WebSphere instead?

Thanks,
-Dan Sneddon