InfoPath Catastrophic failure Error

Sometimes we may need to design a new information panel for document content types. The preferred one is InfoPath form. So you will be going to Ste Actioins -> Content types -> Your Content type -> Document Information Panel Settings -> Design your template...

While doing this so, you may be facing an ugly error Catastrophic failure error. Dont worry about this error... this is because of the columns in your content type. While creating a column in content type, that column should not contain any space(s). For example, you created a content type named "Test Document" and the site column you use is "Test Column". Then this content type will face the catastrophic failure error.

Hence, while defining a site column, make sure that the column name is not having spaces. You may be wondering creating the site column through SharePoint GUI and adding that column to that content type, opening it in infopath form will work fine...

The reason is, space will be replaced with _x050_....

Hope this helps...