InfoPath Error – Updating Content Type Failed When Publishing to SharePoint

If you are getting an Updating Content Type failed error after waiting for a few seconds when trying to publish an InfoPath form to a SharePoint Content Type, you may need to reduce the number of fields/columns that are promoted to SharePoint columns in the Content Type. If there are a large numebr of fiwelds being promoted, the form will not publish every time, or at all.

If this is the reason that the form is not publishing, one solution is to create or modify an item in a separate list from the InfoPath form using the SharePoint Site’s Lists Web Service and the UpdateListItems method. The article InfoPath Error – Updating Content Type Failed When Publishing to SharePoint explains how to reduce the number of promoted fields, by sending the data to SharePoint using a CAML (XML) template, the web service and an additional submit data connection.

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