What is Document Information Panel in Microsoft Word?
A document information
panel is a form that is displayed within the client application, and which
contains fields for the document metadata. Document information panels enable
users to enter important metadata about a file anytime they want, without
having to leave the client application.
Document information
panels are available in Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, and
Microsoft Excel 2010. For SharePoint documents, these client applications auto
generate the document information panels for a document, based on the metadata
schema of the content type assigned to the document.
Problem
Description:
If a site falls in the intranet zone and the
internet security setting “Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins” for the internet
zone is configured to “Administrator Approved” and a user tries to create a new
document within a document library, they gets the following warning
Microsoft InfoPath
One or more ActiveX controls could not be displayed because either:
Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page,
or
You have blocked a publisher of one of the controls.
As a result, the page might not display correctly.
While troubleshooting the issue, I came across multiple resolutions as well as
workarounds and would like to share with all of you.
Resolution
Option 1: Change the IE security setting from
Administrator Approved to Enable for internet zone.
Option 2:
Customize the Document Information Panel using InfoPath so you can modify the
security setting in InfoPath from “Restricted” to “Domain” and re-publish the
XSN back to your content type. This will now cause InfoPath to adhere to the
“Local Intranet” security settings in Internet Explorer.
Note: Once you publish the Document
Information Panel using InfoPath every user must have InfoPath installed on
their machines for the Document Information Panel to display.
Option 3:
Add the Managed Metadata Control to the list of approved controls. To do this there are two
options:
Roll out
the following registry modification to all users:
·
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\AllowedControls
·
Create a new DWORD value that is the
GUID for the Managed Metadata control, which is:
{64247C52-5C34-4597-B2A3-17BF5617F17F}
- Set this value to: 0
How to reproduce the issue:
1)
Add site to intranet zone in Internet
Explorer.
2)
Configure the “Run ActiveX Controls
and PlugIns” settings to Administrator approved for the internet zone and
enabled for intranet zone.
3)
Open a SharePoint 2010 site and then a document library that
has at least one managed metadata column.
4)
On the ribbon, click on Documents and
then New Document.
5)
Word opens, and then we get a warning
dialog
If you have any queries/questions regarding
the above mentioned information then please let me know.
I would be more than
happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.
