Publishing Button Disabled in SharePoint 2010
I came across an issue a few days ago where we had a publishing site in SharePoint 2010 that would not allow pages to be published [kinda makes it hard to be productive! :) ]. The Publish button was disabled and the Submit button threw a "The form cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator." error. After a little digging I found this useful post that quickly resolved the issue. It references the following from TechNet:
- On the Taskbar, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows PowerShell Modules.
- In Windows PowerShell, create a service application by typing $serviceApp = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name “State Service”
- Create a State Service database and associate it with a service application, by typing New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name ”StateServiceDatabase” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp.
- Create a State Service Application Proxy and associate it with the service application by typing New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name ”State Service” -ServiceApplication $serviceApp -DefaultProxyGroup.