Sharepoint (WSS) templates and missing customisations
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4886251
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28-10-2019 - |
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I'm bit of a noob in the sharepoint world, so please bear with any stupidity that might follow...
Our company has a bugs database that is based on Microsofts 40 Sharepoint Templates bugs database, but a few customisations have been made to the deployed template before I started here. I have been tasked with deploying a secondary bugs database for a different project that we are running, however all the customisations made to the original deployment will still apply. So rather than deploy the original MS template again and attempt to recreate all the customisations, I though it would be easier to save a template from the existing site. I did not included content when creating this template, as the existing records are irrelevant to the new database, plus there is a large amount of data and sharepoint complains about the size limit being exceeded.
After creating a new site through central admin, using the custom template I created, I have a problem with the Resolve Bug (Resolve.aspx) screen. It doesnt display anything but the header, no form fields and no buttons. If I look at the site with Sharepoint designer, it indicates that I have altered this file but I haven't made any changes to it. If I look at it in desgin view, it does look empty and doesnt have the default web part items that appear if I look at any of the other pages. I have tried to copy code out of the original sites aspx page into the new one, but that just causes the page to say it's "Unable to display this Web Part". I even tried unzipping the orignal templates wsp file and copying the entire Resolve.aspx into the new site, but to no avail.
Has anybody had a similar problem before or got any thoughts on how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated.
Solution
Chances are that the webparts that display your information are looking at fields that do not exists exactly as they do in your other site.
Try looking at the page on the first site and manually adding the required webparts. Then any configurations will be specific to the new site.
