Error publishing forms to Personal Forms Library?

[Linn Kubler]

Hi,

After all the help from Sue I thought I was on my way but now when I try to
publish my form to my Personal Forms Library I get the following error:

Unable to successfully publish the form due to a MAPI error. The operation
failed. An object could not be found.

All it gives me is an 'OK' button with no hint as to which object could not
be found. I tried clearing the cache but no joy there. Anyone else run
into this? Is it a common problem with customizing forms?

Thanks in advance,
Linn

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It's not a common problem, but it's a frustrating one since there are no hints for troubleshooting it. Is your default information store a PST file or Exchange mailbox? What's the Outlook build number from Help | About?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Linn Kubler]

I'm using an Exchange backend and the build number is, Office 2003
(11.6359.6408) SP1. Hmm, isn't there a SP2 out for Office 2003?

I also found that I can't publish to the Organizational Forms Library
either, get the same message.

Thanks,
Linn

It's not a common problem, but it's a frustrating one since there are no
hints for troubleshooting it. Is your default information store a PST file
or Exchange mailbox? What's the Outlook build number from Help | About?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes, there is a new SP. You could first try running Help | Detect and Repair and then, if that doesn't cure it, install SP2.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Linn Kubler]

Sue,

I had tried the detect and repair with no success but I forgot to mention it
in my previous post. I applied SP2 this morning as well as all other
updates from Windows and Office Updates, re-ran detect and repair but it
still doesn't work.

Very odd and anoying.

Thanks for the continued help, can you think of anything else? Is the
Personal Forms Library stored on the Exchange server or on the workstation?
Is there some utility on the server I should run? I'm assuming that the
detect and repair should have corrected any issues on the local workstation.

Linn

Yes, there is a new SP. You could first try running Help | Detect and Repair
and then, if that doesn't cure it, install SP2.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The Personal Forms library is in your default information store, which could be an Exchange mailbox or a .pst file. If you try a new profile that has only a new .pst file in it and no mail accounts, we may get an idea of whether this is a profile with the application or the store.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Linn Kubler]

Ok, it's clearly something with my main workstation. I tried it on another
computer and it works fine. Think I'll try a complete uninstall of Office
and re-install it. See if that helps.

Linn

 

[Linn Kubler]

Ok, reloading Office and all it's patches and hot fixes didn't help.

Linn

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you try a new mail profile on the problem machine?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Linn Kubler]

Just did, still no luck. I wonder if uninstalling Office was sufficient. I
remember MS had a utility to completely clean a system of the Offiice
installation, removed registry entries and all. That was back in the Office
97 days, wonder if they still have one for Office 2003.

Linn


Did you try a new mail profile on the problem machine?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Linn Kubler]

This is interesting... I just tried to send someone a task request and I got
an error stating that the object could not be found. I have not modified
the task form at all. Wonder if that's another clue as to what my problem
is?

Linn