InfoPath publishing: The following URL is not valid

November 14, 2007   10:05

After publishing a lot of InfoPath forms, suddenly InfoPath 2007 started to present me with an error:
The following URL is not valid: www.url.com

The error made it completely impossible to publish any document to my SharePoint site. After searching some time on Google I found a few solutions which didn’t work for me:

• Only Office Sharepoint 2007
• Sharepoint Tips and Tricks

But the post from Firedancer worked all right.

The solution is to stop the System Event Notification service. It seems to me that it is more a work around as a solution, so after publishing enable the service again.

[update 15-11-2007]
You’ll only have to stop the System Event Notification service for one time. After you published the form resume the service. All new publications will go allright again. I guess that something that went wrong in the SharePoint database gets fixed after the forced publication.

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1. Does not work for me, nor do some of the other items in FireDancer’s post. The only thing I have not been able to try (as a lowly site admin) is AAM’s and whether there is a ‘/’ site.

   Comment by RyanTheRed — August 17, 2008 @ 5:48 am

2. Make sure you have a site at root level. no need to stop system event notification. I have just created site at root level. when we create new site collection at that time do not forget to create root level site, if u create root level site it avoid the error “the following url is not valid” wich will come afterwards.

   Comment by Ashwin Bhagwat — November 8, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

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