Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

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Techy News » Some comments on common Variation problems — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:12:58 GMT

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re: Some comments on common Variation problems

panjkov — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:22:05 GMT

How can I programmatically add content type to list of available content types? I am trying to fix up already confirmed bug in variations that don't associate content types with page libraries in destination variation sites.

re: Some comments on common Variation problems

Sjoert — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:02:27 GMT

Thanks for the update! I ran into a lot of issues regarding variations but also found solutions. Posted on http://sjoere.blogspot.com/2007/11/5-reasons-why-you-should-not-use.html.

Jeremy Jameson blogs about variations

Shared Points... — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:13:32 GMT

Jeremy Jameson has blogged about his adventures in variations. Allthough I don't agree with everything,

Jeremy Jameson blogs about variations

Noticias externas — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:57:39 GMT

Jeremy Jameson has blogged about his adventures in variations. Allthough I don't agree with everything

Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 1

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:46:44 GMT

Shortly before I headed out to the airport last Wednesday, I received the fateful email from my customer

Dumping MOSS 2007 Variations - Part 3

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:59:55 GMT

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I talked about some major issues with the variations feature in

Deleting Variation Labels Does Not Delete Underlying Sites

Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:14:17 GMT

I've received a number of responses to my series on the problems we encountered with Microsoft Office

Deleting Variation Labels Does Not Delete Underlying Sites

Noticias externas — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:11:35 GMT

I've received a number of responses to my series on the problems we encountered with Microsoft Office

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: February 19th, 2008)

SPMike — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:46:18 GMT

It appears that number 2 above still have some problems.

My logs return a The variation system failed to pair up pages

because their Content Types do not match. We have SP1 installed, and we have the language packs installed.

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: February 19th, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:45:09 GMT

Hi SPMike,

if you already have incorrect content types in your system then you will see this.

But it should not happen for new pages.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: February 19th, 2008)

narencachy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:56:07 GMT

Hi,

I created a Variation label and created hierarchies for Arabic version of my portal, now I can see 2 home page tabs and one more tab for Arabic version portal. Now I just want to delete what I created. How can I delete? any ideas? And want to inform you one thing, home page of my portal has been changed to the Arabic version. please do needful..

Cheers,

Naresh

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Khan — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:19:09 GMT

Hello Gary,

It was an awesome post.

I have a few confusions, I hope you would be able to help.

I have the site collection already created. The pages are customized. The site is huge, so have to enable variations on the same site.

1. For customized pages, is it necessary to write customized site definitions and propagate using those definitions. Is it possible in my case.

2.Its a huge site, is there a way to do variation on it step by step i.e. taking a few sites at one time etc.

Thanks for sharing!

mscs111@hotmail.com

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:36:42 GMT

Hi Gary,

1) you would have to create the site definitions BEFORE the sites are created. Not afterwards. As your content already exists it is to late to change the site definitions if you don't want to recreate all content. In addition this is only necessary if your default pages in the site have to be of a different content type/page layout. If the default content type/page layout is ok, then there is no need for a custom site definition.

2) yes. You can disable automatic propagation of the sites and pages. Then you can create the variation for each item/site manually

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

khan — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:31:40 GMT

Thanks for your cooperation Stefan,

But Im a little confused about creating variations manually per item/stie.

Scenario is that we have the site restored as a backup, which is the english(en) version, and is acting as a source.

How can I create hierarchies out of it per item/site?

If this is possible life's gonna be different :).

Thanks for your help.

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:14 GMT

Hi Khan,

you need to configure "do not automatically create site and page variations" in the variation settings of your site collection.

To create a variation of a site open site manager (manage content and structure), hover over the site in tree view and use "New" - "Site Variation"

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

theory — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:50:03 GMT

Hi Stefan,

My variation runs for five hours, and halts without generating any error on the UI.

Nothing in event log. No errors notified in variation logs.

It just halts. Could you think of something. I am working on the vpc. Is it a memory/process issue.

thanks for your help.

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:36:42 GMT

Hi Theory,

do you have the infrastructure update installed?

If yes, I would suggest to open a support case to get this analyzed.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Basilios — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:56:41 GMT

What is the best solution fro Problem #1 mentioned above?

gettign an error:

The variation system failed to pair up pages..../... because their Content Types do not match.

any solution?

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:06:48 GMT

Hi Basilos,

the solution is stated in the article:

The correct solution for this problem is to create a custom site definition template which already uses the correct content types.

Cheers,

Stefan

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

LP — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:47:07 GMT

Hi Stefan,

We have over 600 sites on one site collection we have created a custom site collection and using variations right now en-US and fr-FR, we have a requirement to add 13 new variations. I'm a little worried about performance on the intranet zone, on the internet zone we will probably replicate the content on a new site collection per country. Do you know anyone who has around 15 variations on their intranet?

Cheers,

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Anthony Kasses — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:04:55 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I'm wondering if you can help me....

I received the error below whilst setting up the variations. It appears shortly (10secs) after I click "create hierarchies"

“An error was encountered performing this operation. You may re-try the operation, and you may need to clean up the half-created data first before re-trying. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator”.

On closer inspection, the English and Spanish sites have been created successfully. There are no errors in the Variations Logs and when I set up a published test page in English it propagates successfully over the Spanish site. So I’m a bit unsure what exactly was halted during the long running operation.

Also, I deleted the sites and labels a few times and recreated the hierarchies and get the same issue each time I create the hierarchies. I also created an English hierarchies by itself and that was successful, so it would suggest to me that there is an issue on the Spanish side. I have also created a test Spanish site (team and publishing) and they both appear fine.

The log files report this at the point of failure:

"RO - An exception was thrown by the DoWork method of a LongRunningOperation System.InvalidOperationException:

This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified.

at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonAcl.ThrowIfNotCanonical()......"

Also, I did see this in the event viewer though – I’m sure you’ll instantly know what it means!!

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Error Reporting

Event Category: None

Event ID: 5000

Date: 11/09/2009

Time: 11:52:39 AM

User: N/A

Computer: AU-DEV-MOSS5

Description:

EventType ulsexception12, P1 w3wp.exe, P2 6.0.3790.3959, P3 45d691cc, P4 mscorlib, P5 2.0.0.0, P6 492b8182, P7 20986, P8 0, P9 invalidoperationexception, P10 89v7.”

Finally, my dev server is :

-SP1'd

-infrustructure updates

-SP2'd

-Spanish Langauage packed SP2'd

- + CU of June and July.

Can you suggest where I am going wrong?

Anthony

re: Some comments on common Variation problems (last updated: May 21st, 2008)

Stefan_Gossner — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:38:17 GMT

Hi Anthony,

I haven't seen this. Please open a support case to get this analyzed in more detail.

Cheers,

Stefan