Something weird going on here…
I’ve a URL to an InfoPath form which renders in the browser. Here is the URL
If I start IE and paste in this URL, it works fine.
If I create a desktop icon and click on it, it works fine.
But, if I paste the URL into Word 2010 or Excel 2010 and then click on it, I get the following:
The form never loads. The Javascript error is
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:08:08 UTC
Message: Syntax error
Line: 380
Char: 90
Code: 0
URI: http://sp2010/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://sp2010/TestForm/forms/template.xsn&OpenIn=browser&SaveLocation=http://sp2010/TestForm&Source=http://sp2010/TestForm
Message: ‘g_objCurrentFormData_Error’ is undefined
Line: 549
Char: 3
Code: 0
Here is line 380
var g_objHasFormPostedBack_FormControl=false;var g_objCurrentFormData_FormControl = [[],[1,[[[2,[0,["","","",-1],[[3,["",["","","",-1],[],false,false,false],-1,false,false,3]],false],-1,false,false,3]],false,[0,0],[1],false],-1,false,false,3],0,”25f04190a0d34663b6ddd45e1bf7966e_ba7c22eb533544e8b20b16a243729ec2″,”AHYXKHSEFSKL2R5RS2PME3RRTJ2RYL2UIVJVIRSPKJGS6RSPKJGVGL2UIVGVATCBKRCS4WCTJYVWE5TIPFDGC4KJOBYVU4DZNNBG2NKCKJWFQSSUIFSTMTTFIZLDEUKMGZLVQ5DQOMZE2S3TA”,1033,”2010-12-31T17:05:57″,”2010-12-31″,["0","","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002fforms\u002ftemplate.xsn","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002f","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002fforms\u002ftemplate.xsn","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm",1,0,"FormControl",0,false],”View 1″,0,false,”TestForm – New Form”,1,”",”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,”ltr”,”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,6.34294119577127E+17,”0″,”",false,1033,”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,[],false,true,”",”",”0″,false,”",true,2,”",”",”",”puN2wNKuBBJ\u002fcJfi\u002fht858J7Kvg5lmIm3Ab\u002foyQb9bCuc13KdA2g5VC5SATX4mcEeMyOPR8V5fq6oC0bSAFFAQ==|634294119576971096″];
Some pretty weird looking characters after the second equals sign. If I refresh the page (F5) it works.
Line 380 now a more healthy looking
var g_objHasFormPostedBack_FormControl=false;var g_objCurrentFormData_FormControl = [[],[1,[[[2,[0,["","","",-1],[[3,["",["","","",-1],[],false,false,false],-1,false,false,3]],false],-1,false,false,3]],false,[0,0],[1],false],-1,false,false,3],0,”25f04190a0d34663b6ddd45e1bf7966e_dab1b19fd5bd43229c497a0710468307″,”AHYXKHSEFSKL2R5RS2PME3RRTJ2RYL2UIVJVIRSPKJGS6RSPKJGVGL2UIVGVATCBKRCS4WCTJYVWE5TIPFDGC4KJOBYVU4DZNNBG2NKCKJWFQSSUIFSTMTTFIZLDEUKMGZLVQ5DQOMZE2S3TA”,1033,”2010-12-31T17:17:07″,”2010-12-31″,["0","","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002fforms\u002ftemplate.xsn","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002f","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm\u002fforms\u002ftemplate.xsn","http:\u002f\u002fsp2010\u002fTestForm",1,0,"FormControl",0,false],”View 1″,0,false,”TestForm – New Form”,1,”",”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,”ltr”,”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,6.34294126273283E+17,”0″,”",false,1033,”http:\u002f\u002fsp2010″,[],false,true,”",”",”0″,false,”",true,2,”",”",”",”ye\u002fl3NLOSE8tEEvuHJw\u002bV8BbPew9HmxiavUkjgd\u002b\u002bkYa\u002f1J82qWX\u002bpwjlvGijygad0J6I7Vkp3onbQv56VLbwA==|634294126273282857″];
So why should clicking a link in Word 2010 or Excel 2010 be any different to following any other hyperlink? Over to Microsoft on this one I think! Anyone any ideas?
UPDATE: It seems a bit intermittent. Also setting the regional settings of the SharePoint site to “English (UK)”, the same as my client computer, seems to fix the problem.
