You cannot select the values for a custom field when you try to edit the properties on the FldEditEx.aspx page on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site

You create a list that contains a custom field that has a custom field type on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site. When you try to edit the properties of the custom field on the FldEditEx.aspx page, you cannot select the values for the custom field. Instead, you see only the default text in the custom field.

This problem occurs when the values in the custom field are rendered as invalid.

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Hotfix Package that is dated April 12, 2007. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.