Here's something interesting I've just uncovered:

I have a template, About, which is powered by About.aspx, and was
intended for pages that sit in a channel called About. (I manage
several sites moving over to MCMS, and this one has a specially themed
'about the organisation' section that spans several pages.)

No matter what I did, new pages wouldn't save. They'd click straight
through to the standard MCMS placeholder page without so much as a
second thought. I couldn't understand it: the code seemed fine, no
different behind the scenes to any of the other templates I've
developed, and I spent hours tweaking little things to see if they'd
make the page save.

Pages created using other templates worked, and once there was a
standard page in the About channel, saving a page with the About
template produced the famous 'authentication of viewstate failed'
error. A search suggested this had something to do with a server farm,
but this is a standalone server.

In the end, I changed the name of the channel. Instantly, saving pages
works.

This is clearly a bug, but is it to do with the way the site has been
set up (this particular intallation of MCMS predates me by a couple of
years and sits on a slightly idiosyncratic server), or is it a fault
with MCMS itself? All thoughts received with thanks, as I'd like to
avoid this in the future.

Ben

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Hi Ben,

this is not a known issue.
You should open a support case for this.

Cheers,
Stefan

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<benwerd@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here's something interesting I've just uncovered:
>
> I have a template, About, which is powered by About.aspx, and was
> intended for pages that sit in a channel called About. (I manage
> several sites moving over to MCMS, and this one has a specially themed
> 'about the organisation' section that spans several pages.)
>
> No matter what I did, new pages wouldn't save. They'd click straight
> through to the standard MCMS placeholder page without so much as a
> second thought. I couldn't understand it: the code seemed fine, no
> different behind the scenes to any of the other templates I've
> developed, and I spent hours tweaking little things to see if they'd
> make the page save.
>
> Pages created using other templates worked, and once there was a
> standard page in the About channel, saving a page with the About
> template produced the famous 'authentication of viewstate failed'
> error. A search suggested this had something to do with a server farm,
> but this is a standalone server.
>
> In the end, I changed the name of the channel. Instantly, saving pages
> works.
>
> This is clearly a bug, but is it to do with the way the site has been
> set up (this particular intallation of MCMS predates me by a couple of
> years and sits on a slightly idiosyncratic server), or is it a fault
> with MCMS itself? All thoughts received with thanks, as I'd like to
> avoid this in the future.
>
> Ben
>

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