Tuesday, March 24, 2009

"SharePoint designer encountered an error generating the task form" error caused by using IP address instead of machine name

Never use IP address instead of machine name while using SharePoint Designer. You can save yourself some time NOT trying to solve the problems caused by that…

I was playing with some SharePoint Designer workflows the other day and was getting “SharePoint designer encountered an error generating the task form” error all the time. And yes, the moment I changed IP to machine name, the problem was gone. And that is not the first error in my practice I had because of that issue.
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2 comments:

  1. ChrisFebruary 2, 2010 at 11:19 PM

    Hi, I got the same error. But how do I know if I'm using IP address instead of machine name? I didn't use any IP address as I remember.

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  2. Paul ShkurikhinFebruary 3, 2010 at 1:58 AM

    When you open your site from SharePoint Designer, do you use smth like "http://45.32.12.210"?

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