Article ID: 2622638 - Last Review: April 9, 2012 - Revision: 6.0

SharePoint Designer does not recognize custom forms after upgrade

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Symptoms

SharePoint Designer 2010 does not recognize Custom Display, Edit, and New Item Form pages for some lists/libraries after upgrade from SharePoint 2007 to 2010.

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Cause

This occurs when a custom list form is not in a Web Part Zone.

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Resolution

Add a Web Part Zone and wrap the DataFormWebPart into the Web Part Zone.

The sample code is like following:

<WebPartPages:WebPartZone runat="server" id="g_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" title="Zone1">
                  <ZoneTemplate>
                <WebPartPages:DataFormWebPart …>
                                ...
             </WebPartPages:DataFormWebPart>
</ZoneTemplate>
</WebPartPages:WebPartZone>

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