issue adding custom webpart twice on a page

Question

hello ,

i have developed a custom webpart "MyWebPart" using visual studio and i  have a issue when adding my custom webpart  twice on a page , the first webpart display correctly but the second instance of the webpart is not displaying , i see only the title like this : MyWebPart(2) and the title of the first webpart become MyWebPart(1).

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Web parts need to be specifically written to support multiple instances of a web part on the same page.  What you need to do to support multiple instances depends on what the web part is trying to display.  What you are seeing is normal for most web parts.

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Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP
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Answer 2

my webpart is used to display images from a sharepoint library.

Answer 3

The real question is what is this web part doing? My guess would be you are referrencing controls in a less than correct way.

Answer 4

the webpart reference a user control and use a editorPart.

Answer 5

If it references a user control that's probably the issue.  You would need to make sure in your code that you loaded the user control as two separate instances of the user control.  Otherwise it will either only load once or load twice and display the same thing.

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Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP
Principal Architect: Blue Chip Consulting Group
Blog: http://dontpapanic.com/blog
Twitter: Follow @pstork
Please remember to mark your question as "answered" if this solves your problem.