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InfoPath Form Services: Manage Form Templates stuck on Installing   

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I was having an issue with a InfoPath Form I had deployed wrapped up in a Solution Feature that just wouldn't budge from a FormTemplateStatus of "Installing". I tried deleting it in the UI in Central Administration and also via STSADM and get the old chestnut of 'Object Reference not set to an instance of an Object:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.Administration.FormTemplate.SolutionDeploymentFailed() 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.Administration.FormTemplate.get_FormTemplateStatus() 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.FormTemplatePropertiesPage.GetStatusString(FormTemplate template) 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.ManageFormTemplatesPage.AddTemplateToTable(FormTemplate template, DataTable table, SPWeb web)
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.ManageFormTemplatesPage.FillDataTable(DataTable table) 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.GridViewPageBase.GridViewDataSourceView.FillDataTable(DataTable table, DataSourceSelectArguments selectArguments) 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.GridViewPageBase.GridViewDataSourceView.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments selectArguments) 
   at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.AdministrationDataSourceView.ExecuteSelect(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments) 
   at System.Web.UI.DataSourceView.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments, DataSourceViewSelectCallback callback) 
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.PerformSelect() 
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.DataBind() 
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.DataBind() 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.GridViewPageBase.RefreshDataGrid() 
   at Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.Server.ApplicationPages.ManageFormTemplatesPage.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) 
   at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() 
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) 
Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.

There are plenty of posts on this recommending using C# code via a console app or Windows Form Application, but I went one further and used good old PowerShell to do this as it's installed on my farm already.

   1: [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint") 
   2: function global:Get-SPFarm{ 
   3: return [Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm]::Local 
   4: } 

You can query all the forms in your farm using:

   1: Get-SPFarm |% {$_.Services} | where {'$_.TYPEName -eq "Forms Service"'} |% {$_.FormTemplates}  |% {Write-Output $_}

With the below script you can delete a particular form. Basically just change the second where clause to the form you want to Delete.

   1: Get-SPFarm |% {$_.Services} | where {'$_.TYPEName -eq "Forms Service"'} |% {$_.FormTemplates}  | where {$_.DisplayName -eq "MyForm"} |% {Write-Output $_.Delete()} 

For more information on getting started with PowerShell and SharePoint check out my other post. There's a great CodePlex project called PowerShell Building Blocks for SharePoint with more samples here... think I may start adding to this one. Check out all my diigo links.

 
Posted by  Jeremy Thake  on  10/28/2008
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John Wikman  commented on  Tuesday, October 28, 2008  10:46 AM 
Another thing to check is the timer job status to make sure that the form actually installed to all servers in the farm. It's possible you'll have to run the stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs on servers where the install did not finish properly.


Jeremy Thake  commented on  Tuesday, October 28, 2008  3:54 PM 
Great point John, unfortunately in my scenario I was on a single server farm ;-) But I've had this in the past too, especially with daylight savings settings not properly configured!


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