SharePoint Designer 2010 does not show Lists and Libraries

15. May 2012 17:06 by Praj Devkota in SharePoint  //  Tags: , , , ,   //   Comments (0)

When you open a site on SharePoint Designer 2010 you don’t see any Lists or Libraries.



I have noticed similar problem occur when lists or libraries are corrupted or orphaned.  One way to test is to go to Site Actions --> Manage Content and Structure on your SharePoint site.

After doing that in my case I got an error.  Looking into SharePoint log file the error, below, did not make much sense.

"System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.    at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.WebControls.ObjectSerializer.DeleteAllowed(Boolean checkPermissions) …."

I then browsed to the site using SharePoint Manger 2010 and after clicking on every single list I managed to locate the culprit list.


 
Now, the task was to simply delete the list but could not delete it from SharePoint Manger, then I tried PowerShell $list.Delete() that did not work and tried stsadm –o forcedeletelist that did not work as well.

Then after some Googling again found this post that provided the trick.

http://sharepointmalaya.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/delete-corrupted-list-using-stsadm.html

Finally solution was to delete the corrupted list form user recycle bin and site admin recycle bin.

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Praj Devkota


I am technology consultant with over 11 years of consulting experience with specialisation in SharePoint. As a consultant over the years I have been fortunate to be part of over 30 SharePoint projects delivery and numerous pre-sales consultations with various companies across different industry sectors. This has provided me a valuable insight and experience specially in successful implementation of SharePoint based solutions. My experiences in SharePoint implementation include SharePoint strategy and roadmap definition, business and technical requirements identification, governance, platform architecture, solution design, configuration, development, quality assurance, training, post production support, team lead and overall project delivery. My value proposition to my customers is my broad SharePoint solution Implementation experience and commitment to a successful solution implementation.



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