I embed a Microsoft Word document on a form using OLE. After using the form to compose a new Notes document and typing info into the embedded Word document and saving it, I sometimes receive the error “an error has occurred while processing a request on an object” when I double-click the Word object to re-open it. There seems to be no pattern to when this error appears. Any ideas?
Subject: Embedded OLE Error
I tried re-registering the ole32.dll file but it didn’t seem to help; this was in response to another topic I found in this forum when searching on the error message “an error has occurred while processing a request on an object.”
Subject: RE: Embedded OLE Error
Scott,
We get this error all the time and it’s incredibly annoying for our teams. When it breaks, the document (ole attachment/object) is toast and can’t be opened again which casues loss of sometimes hours of work.
I’ve seen it posted that this is fixed but it absolutely isn’t. If you figure out a way around it I’d be VERY interested.
Mike
Subject: RE: Embedded OLE Error
Thanks, Mike, at least I’m not alone. I find that deleting the object from the form and recreating it stops the error from happening on new documents, but doesn’t do anything for existing documents. Even re-creating the object only lasts for so long before it begins creating broken documents/objects again.
Subject: RE: Embedded OLE Error
Yep. I’ve been battling this issues for 3.5 years and no real solution has arisen. Oh well…someday!!
Subject: RE: Embedded OLE Error
One thing that seems to work is saving the document before doing anything with the embedded object. I use the form with the embedded object to compose a document. Before I double-click the object to open and edit it, I save the new document to the database. I then double-click the object and edit it. When I re-open the document and double-click the object to open it, I don’t get the error. The problem is that you are forced to save the document whether you want to or not; you would have to go back to a view and delete the document if you don’t want it. This also seems to solve the unpredictable display of data you enter on the OLE’s picture.