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Well…..one of these you use a couple of hours to solve and looking back you know it should only have lasted 20 minutes, if your brain had been pressent

Here we go….when creating a new list item in SHarepoint 2010 in a list with a list form edited in Infopath 2010 you get a pop-up with no fields and no headings – even though you know you have placed several fields in it.

The trick is called “System State” and is the same as in Sharepoint 2007 where you got it from the Shared Service Provider, but since there is no Shared Service Provider in Sharepoint 2010 you need to find it another place.

Open the Central Administration and click on configuration wizard in the quick launch. Start the configuration wizard and make sure System State is checked on the services page. After 5 minutes every Infopath form rendered like a dream.

Actually there is another way of doing this, if you are not the “wizard-kind-of-Sharepointer” and this is through PowerShell – I have searched but haven’t found a “Enable Session State” in the Central admin. The cmdlets are Get-SPSessionStateService, which returns a true or a false indicating if it is enabled or not – and if it is not, you can enable it with the cmdlet Enable-SPSessionStateService, which takes a lot of parameters – and the only mandatory is Databasename.

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