Can't see Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Designer 2010

Question

Hello,

I'm moving Site Collections from one domain to another domain. I set up Development Farm and Production Farm in new domain.  I moved all site collections to Development Environment without any problem. However, I'm having a problem with one site collection in Production. When I restored site collection in Production, I cannot see Lists and Libraries in SP Designer.  On the other hand, when I restore same site collection in Development, I see Lists and Libraries in SP Designer.

I have five servers in Production; 2wfe, 2app, and 1db.

I have three servers in Development; 1wfe, 1app, and 1db.

What could be the issue? It's frustrating!

Thanks

Orrin

Answer 1

Hi,

have you checked the Log for any error, there could be broken links and may be SPD is throwing some error which would be easier to isolate the issue.

also see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/a1804727-1191-4c41-b8c4-9e8299a2ad61/sharepoint-designer-unable-to-show-items?forum=sharepointcustomizationprevious

and have you enabled SPD for you site and you have design permission

Site Actions > Site Settings > Sharepoint Designer Settings > Enable Sharepoint Designer

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Answer 2

I don't think it is about broken links/lists, the same site collection works in Dev after I restore it. I mean I can see Lists and Libraries. Well, it was not only Lists and Libraries, it was also Site Pages, Site Assets... etc. and there were no error message for Lists and Libraries, it was just blank.

Answer 3

Some other suggestions for you: -

• Have you checked in the recycle bin on the site?  I can't think why a migration would delete your content but if the lists / libraries are in the bin SPD sometimes generates this error
• Use the web service trick to see if you can identify a broken list. It takes one list only to confuse SPD.

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Answer 4

Steven, 

When I navigate to it, I have all content including all lists and libraries. I just can't see them in SharePoint Designer. I thought to do web service trick but I have so many lists, and when it works in Dev I don't think it is about broken links. 

 I'm just not sure how to deal with it now. 

Thanks

Answer 5

what i believe, may be their are some features dependencies on one or all lists, and that feature is missing from your Prod farm.

Could you please check the Logs and see if you get some error.

check this blog, talking about the Root level site issue and also read the comment.

http://spgeekchick.com/2011/02/13/sharepoint-designer-2010-error-list-and-libraries-no-items-to-display/

 

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Answer 6

I figured out they are not showing because of the feature not deployed. I've planned to not deploy that specific feature, so I need to figure out the way without deploying it.

Thanks a lot