Symptom:

Often times, developers in WSS3.0/MOSS2007 probably run across the issue where a web part is dropped on to a page
and then Sharepoint errors out for one reason or the other. Sometimes, the user is directed to a Web Part Maintenance page,
which helps the developer remove the offending web part from the page.

However, there is no way to get to this page from any easily available link.

Resolution:

In order to get to the Web Part Maintenance page for ANY sharepoint url, try the following trick.


a) Append the querystring ?contents=1 to the url in the browser as shown below.

b) The Web Part Maintenance page for the desired url can then be accessed, as seen here:

 

This tip can also be found at: http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/archive/2004/04/12/111776.aspx,
but is repeated here, since I think this can save a lot of developers some time.

Hope this helps other developers.

- Rajiv

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Posted 02-08-2007 5:04 PM by RChakravarti