SharePoint 2010 - Quick Fix for Ribbon Page Layout switch JavaScript error
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 1:28PM
1. Your content editor is trying to change page layout via the Ribbon in SharePoint 2010
Figure: Click Page Layout in the Ribbon
2. But they get a JavaScript error
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3)
Timestamp: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 01:33:17 UTC
Message: Object required
Line: 2
Char: 6422
Code: 0
URI: http://intranet.ssw.com.au/_layouts/cui.js?rev=wvoVpqlQb30nGo4DjDk8Kg%3D%3D
This error is likely caused by SharePoint trying to render available page layouts for the page to switch to, but there is an error.
A very quick fix that can be applied by a site owner is:
1. Site Settings | Look and Feel | Page layouts and site templates
2. Restrict the valid number of page layouts that can be used, instead of allowing "Pages in this site can use any layout"
Figure: Restrict valid page layouts
3. This fixes the Ribbon menu
Figure: Ribbon menu fixed!
4. Tell your sys admin that there are broken packages in SharePoint and must be fixed ASAP
Reader Comments (2)
Thank you.
Great find! I've been trying to figure out a solution to this for about 3 days now. The page layout was a custom page layout from a custom site definition in our environment.