SharePoint 2013 is always full of mysteries as it’s a starting time and
most of the firms are doing the migration of their SharePoint 2010 environment
to SP2013 platform. So it’s quite obvious it will take some time to make your
farm stable!
Note:
If you find a different
solution, please report it as a comment to this post. Be sure to double-verify
it: undo your solution and verify that the problem comes back, then redo it and
verify that the problem goes away.
Problem
description:
We have recently done the
migration from SP2010 -> SP2013 in our development environment and given
access to limited number of high profile users and developers for the testing.
While doing the testing, one of the developers has reported an incident
mentioning he is facing some error while editing the list item. Further
exploration reveals that we can’t add a new item also.
So bottom line, this error comes up while: Adding a new item in
a list or at the time of editing the item
Error Message:
The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try
again.
Troubleshooting
done:
1. Tried creating
different list with some different template / type but same issue.
2. Checked the list in
SharePoint Designer 2013 but didn’t find anything relevant.
3. Checked the site
settings for any customized content type but it was using default settings
4. Checked the event
viewer for any critical errors but didn’t not find anything
5. Checked the
services console, did some try & error funda but that did the trick. Later
I did some research on my “trial and error method” and understood the complete
process via Microsoft articles (reference article –bottom of this page)
Resolution:
1. Go to your
SharePoint Server
2. Start
3. Run
4. Type – services.msc
5. It will open the
services console
6. Search for this
service - SharePoint Search Host Controller
7. Restart it.
It
fixed the issue and I was able to create new items as well as edit the existing
items too.
Happy
SharePoint once again!
Few
suggestions if the above solution doesn’t work:-
1) IISRESET on
SharePoint Servers
2) Restart all the
SharePoint Servers
3) Enable anonymous
authentication for the website in IIS.
I
hope the above information works for you also! But in case of any
queries/questions then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help
you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.
Product applies to:
a) SharePoint 2013
b) SharePoint
Foundation 2013
