How to create Reports in Sharepoint 2013

Step 1:

Create Report library

Step 2:

Add new document of Report Builder Report.

Step 3:

After Creating the report open in Report builder

Step 4:

Make the report and save it in particular library.

The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again.” Error

When working on a SharePoint 2013, after several hours of uptime, the user interface showed an error message when our user wanted to save an item in a list : “The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again.”

Looking at different possible causes, We found that the available memory was drastically low. Indeed, on this 8GB RAM, only few megs were still available.

Then, in the “Processes” tab, We saw that the noderunner.exe process was eating a lot of memory. So we restarted the “SharePoint Search Host Controller” service. The service took a long time to restart and a huge part of the memory was released. The good thing is that at the same time it solved the item-saving issue. The error disappeared.

To be sure this service restart was “solving” the issue, We worked again several hours, playing also with the search and when the VM got short in memory, the same error message was shown again.

Another side effect of this low-memory case occurs when browsing the Managed Metadata tree. We suddenly received constantly an “Unexpected response from server. The status code of response is ‘500’. The status text of response is ‘System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException’. Unfortunately, it was impossible to get out of this message loop, and the only way to get rid of it was to kill the Internet Explorer application.

To prevent this low-memory case, we upgrade our server RAM into 16GB. So we can keep the available memory high. And we always monitoring our server, so we will release the memory before our clients get the “The server was unable to save the form at this time. Please try again.” error.