Question

I have a feature that automatically creates some web part pages. I want to display a list in my web part page but I can’t get the list to show up. Here is my code in my element.xml file:

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Module Path="PageTemplates" Url="" > 

    <File Url="Tab3.aspx" Name="Tab3.aspx" Type="Ghostable" >      
 <View List="Lists/Links"                        
             BaseViewID="0"
             WebPartZoneID="Left" 
              WebPartOrder="0"/>  
    </File>
  </Module>
</Elements>

I know i set up the page correctly because I put the following content editor web part into the page and it shows up:

<AllUsersWebPart WebPartZoneID="Left" WebPartOrder="0">      
    <![CDATA[         
        <WebPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2"
                 xmlns:cewp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ContentEditor">
            <Assembly>Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c</Assembly>
            <TypeName>Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.ContentEditorWebPart</TypeName>
            <Title>Some content that you want to provision with the feature</Title>
            <FrameType>TitleBarOnly</FrameType>
            <cewp:Content>
              Hello world.
            </cewp:Content>
        </WebPart>
    ]]>       
</AllUsersWebPart> 

I’m getting the following error in the log: Not enough information to determine a list for module “(null)”. Assuming no list for this module.

What am I doing wrong?

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More details:
When I use

<View List="Lists/Links"...> 

I get no error but nothing shows up on my page. if I enter a bogus list name I get the following error:
Cannot complete this action.

Please try again. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.EnableModuleFromXml(String bstrFeatureDirectory, String bstrUrl, String bstrXML)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.EnableModuleFromXml(String bstrFeatureDirectory, String bstrUrl, String bstrXML)

I don’t believe the previous error I quoted is related to my problem. The error I posted before was

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I believe I need to create a ListInstance element in elements.xml file of my feature. I added the following to the top of my file:

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <ListInstance
      FeatureId="6A9FB262-8EAD-46C1-814B-7FED72D34EBF"
      Id="Links"
      Url="Links"
      Title="Links"
      TemplateType="103"/>
....

I get the following error:
Failed to find a suitable list for tag in module for file ‘Tab3.aspx’ given List attribute ‘Links’.

Answer 1

My solution was to create the page in Sharepoint Designer and then copy the code into the feature aspx page.