Here we go, it’s been a long time I didn’t publish
an article which consist of hardcore troubleshooting! Yes, you are correct. It took
some time to resolve but finally the issue has been resolved. This time it’s
regarding problem occurring while ‘save site as template’ and how we found the
culprit.
Problem description:-
User has raised the problem ticket by
mentioning “facing problem while saving the site as template”, additionally the
templates are getting saved in the solution gallery but not able to activate it
also.
Error message:-
An unexpected error has occurred.
Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft
SharePoint Foundation.
Correlation ID:
acd95f50-4049-4625-9682-aa93aded118f
Troubleshooting done:-
Further debugging in the SP ULS logs and we
found some strange facts which are based on event receivers- please refer
below-
SPSolutionExporter:
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: Feature definition with Id 77658379-50ff-4e1e-a431-5652bee07a87
failed validation
Looking for 'ReceiverAssembly'
attribute in manifest root node for solution
Looking for 'ReceiverClass'
attribute in manifest root node for solution
The 'Format' attribute is invalid -
The value 'CheckBoxes' is invalid according to its datatype
I debug further to find out where the problem
is-
I downloaded the saved wsp's from /_catalogs/solutions/Forms/AllItems.aspx
to my desktop
Renamed it to .cab
Extracted all the contents and found some
interesting facts along with manifest.xml file like-
1.
List Instances
2.
Modules
3.
Property bags
4.
web template
Inside List Instances, I found ElementsFields.xml
Once i opened the above xml file, search for
the checkboxes and found the following-
Further exploration on this, it seems that the
checkbox attribute is invalid and needs to be modified.
Resolution:-
After this one, the solution is pretty much
simple, just go ahead and remove that affected column / remove the affected
content type – does not require IISRESET also.
If you have any queries/questions regarding
the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than
happy to help you as well as resolves your issue, Thank you.
