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Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Meta

Meta — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:52:54 +0000

Will this technique work if you nuked your EditForm.aspx instead?

Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:41:00 +0000

This worked perfectly! Sure beats deleting and recreating the list, especially when workflow was involved!

Comment on Toggle display of hidden files in Finder with Automator (OSX) by Wade Dorrell

Wade Dorrell — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:41:51 +0000

The Art of Geek source link appears to be dead. Do you happen to have the script/steps? Thanks!

Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Penny

Penny — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:00:49 +0000

OMG, you saved me!!!

Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:02:52 +0000

Heyyy man!!! you just saved my life!!!!
I used to think that this was imposible to do…

Comment on Sharepoint and the Invalid page URL error by Phil

Phil — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:52:26 +0000

Thanks James – that saved me! Delete list… – my ass!

Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Phil

Phil — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:29:21 +0000

Thank you! This saved my butt.

Comment on Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007 by Dan

Dan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:44:17 +0000

Thank you so much. I have a custom list with a VERY complex workflow and didn’t fancy re-building that

Comment on Sharepoint and the Invalid page URL error by hightechdave

hightechdave — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:33:35 +0000

Thanks James! Interestingly enough I eventually did find a solution quite a while back as written here: http://hightechdave.com/2010/09/22/recover-newform-aspx-from-the-dead-in-sharepoint-2007/

Thank you for sharing, that was a nasty problem to work through!

Comment on Sharepoint and the Invalid page URL error by James

James — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:08:20 +0000

Your advice on recovering the List View Web part is incorrect. It can in fact be recovered. You are NOT hosed (as you say). It seems the microsoft advice (while functional) is not handy.

Here is how to fix the issue:

Problem: You have deleted the List View Web Part from NewForm.aspx because you were customizing it. You then find out that pressing the NEW button on your list causes the invalid url. You may also find that trying to edit existing records throws an object reference error

Solution:

Open NewForm.aspx and EditForm.aspx in designer.

Copy the ListViewWebPart from EditForm into NewForm

Generate a GUID using a GUID generator.
If you have the Microsoft SDK installed on your system, you can use the utility uuidgen.exe, which is located in the “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDK\Bin” directory.

Now you need to edit the ListFormWebPart you just copied into NewForm.aspx.
Edit the __WebPartID field and replace it with the GUID you just generated.
Example:
__WebPartId=”{14959BD7-F994-40D3-B8A8-0A1AE857EF31}”

Finally edit the ID tag of your web part. All you need to do here is replace 1 character in the ID tag.
Example:
g_9c233833_7d83_4d36_9745_07227e3b396a may get changed to
g_9c233833_7d83_4d36_9745_07227e3b397a. (I changed the last number from 6 to 7)

That should do it and your form should be recovered at this point.

Hope this helps expand your understanding of Sharepoint !

James