Category / SharePoint Lists

by Simon Doy

Corrupted List Url Fix: Link to SharePoint List points to /_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=[ListGuid]


Issue

Had an issue at a client where a SharePoint task list got corrupted.

The issue had come about due to the list being copied using Metalogix SharePoint Migration Manager within the same site. The copy of the list had been corrupted so that if you clicked on “View All Site Content”, then clicked on the list name you were taken to the Edit List Settings page (/_layouts/listaspx.aspx?List=[GuidOfList]). Once in the list settings page, clicking on the breadcrumb to take you back to the list would take you to the web application homepage.

Solution

The fix was actually quite straightforward, if you typed in the url of the list correctly, http://sharepointsiteurl/sites/site/lists/My%20List%20Name, you could access the default list view with no problem. So I used a similar method to fix that I have used in this blog post, Manage Content and Structure error.

To fix:-

  • Delete the list using List Settings->Delete this list.
  • Restore the list from the recycle bin

Voila! The link within “View All Site content” is now working as expected.

by Simon Doy

Manage Content and Structure (An Unknown Error Occured)


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Sometimes you have got to love SharePoint, or more importantly love the developers who developed SharePoint to return an exception message such as “An unknown error occured” when something bad happens.

This message occurred when using the Site Actions->Manage Content and Structure feature.

After some investigation a couple of posts on MSDN were found these talked about checking various xml files which customise the Publishing Editing Toolbar and Site Actions toolbar.

The MSDN post said to check that the files were both checked in and published.

However, this did not fix the problem. After further investigation I could see that some lists had two entries in the View All Site Content page (/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx), both which linked to the same list. So the problem is how can we get rid of one of these links?

The first idea was to backup the list as a list template and then delete the list, however this would change the list id when a new list was created from the template.

Instead I had the idea to use the recycle bin feature to bring the list back.

Deleting and restoring the list from the recycle bin did indeed fix the duplicate list links and also fixed the Manage Content and Structure feature!

Next, is to workout why these list entries are duplicated.