Monday, January 13, 2014

SharePoint Designer 2010: This page cannot be edited in SharePoint Designer

Problem

You connect to a SharePoint 2010 farm site through SharePoint Designer 2010 in order to edit a page at the site.  After successfully connecting to the site and checking out the page, when you then click the Edit link, you experience this prompt:
Solution
  1. On seeing this prompt, click Cancel.
  2. Undo the checkout.
  3. Go to a list view of the pages
  4. Select the page.
  5. On the All Files ribbon, click the Detach from page Layout button.
  6. Proceed to edit as normal.
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