Monday 14 November 2011
Web Part Page Maintenance – Get rid of that broken web part (SharePoint: Tricks for web part customization)
So, what happens when you are making a web part and despite your awesome coding prowess something goes wrong that prevents the page from rendering? It is kind of hard to change a setting on the web part when you can’t get to its editor window right? Well, the smart guys at Microsoft thought of this and included a “Web Part Page Maintenance” page for just such an occasion. At this page, you get a list of every web part that is added to the page and the ability to close, delete or reset them.
To get to this page, simply type “?contents=1″ at the end of the broken page URL.
Example: http://SharePoint/site.aspx is the page with the broken web part on it. Stick “?contents=1″ at the end of the URL to get http://SharePoint/site.aspx?contents=1
(Note: This will redirect the page to the layouts folder, opening spcontnt.aspx with the URL of the requesting page being sent in the new URL as a parameter. You could open this page directly, but its a lot easier to remember contents=1)
So, you will hopefully get a page like the one shown below. Now just delete the web part that is causing the problem and you are back in business.
Trick 1: Deleting a bad web part
If you have just added a web part to a page and you get the dreaded error page as a result, add ?Contents=1 to the page’s URL.
http://……./default.aspx?Contents=1
You can now delete the offending web part.
Trick 2: Getting to web parts when there is no “Edit Page” in Site Actions
Add &ToolPaneView=2 to then end of the URL. This example will let you see the web parts on a list’s NewForm page.
http://……./NewForm.aspx?……..&ToolPaneView=2
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