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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How to quickly edit multiple Web Service urls inside an InfoPath form

November 10, 2007   20:06

A good way to communicate with SharePoint from within a InfoPath form is to use Web Services. Normally you will manage the data source type Web Service with the help of the Data Connection Wizard. To investigate the web service you often have to supply the wizard with some example parameters, especially when the web service doesn’t return any result with empty parameters. Providing those parameters can take quite some time if you have to update more as one web service.

One of my current projects included 5 InfoPath forms with each 6 web services. Clicking through the Data Connection Wizard to update the url would take quite some time and I only needed to change the location. My test environment used the same web service as in production, but because of the different server name I had to update the urls to make the InfoPath forms work.

I found some interesting instructions in the InfoPath documentation and I decided to take it to the test. It turned out to be a good and quick way to update the urls. If you are facing the same situation as me follow these steps:

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