When using Sharepoint Designer 2010 to create custom aspx list forms I was getting the error:

‘sharepoint designer could not save the list changes to the server’

I had a look on the net but couldnt really find anything relating to do with this.

I seem to have solved it by going to my list and removing duplicate column names that werent being used ie.

Consultant

Consultant #Used in CT ‘Consultant’#

I was using a custom content type so I deleted all the columns that weren’t ‘Used by’ my custom content type. Once I had done this I was them able to create custom forms as expected in SPD 2010.

Hopefully this will help some people if theyre getting similar problems!

When displaying the filter bar in a data view webpart it will list multiple instances of the same option if the data exists multiple times in your datasource ie. say you have a 100 list items & one of the columns contains a ‘yes’ or ‘no’, it will list them 100 times instead of just a single ‘yes’ / ‘no’ option to apply on your filter.

To remove duplicate filter options, open your dataview webpart in Sharepoint Designer & look for:

<br /> <xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($dvt_Rows)/*[not(@*[name()=$dvt_FieldNameNoAtSign]=preceding-sibling::*[1]/@*[name()=$dvt_FieldNameNoAtSign])]/@*[name()=$dvt_FieldNameNoAtSign]">

Simply remove the ‘[1]‘ from each filter option, now your filter dropdowns will only display unique values, removing the duplicate options.

Error message when you try to attach a file in a custom form on the Web site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: “This form was customized not working with attachment”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953271/en-us

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