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Thursday, 7 April 2011

Page Title element and PerformancePoint Report always being blank

This was one I came across recently while doing some custom branding work on a SharePoint 2010 site which was using Performance Point Services, and specifically the PerformancePoint Report Web Part.

I had a simple branded master page (which was a copy of the normal v4.master) but could not for the life of me get PerformancePoint reports to work.

The Report Web Part was blank (with zero height) and there was a JavaScript error on the page:
Unterminated string constant
Code: 0
Well .. I rolled my site back to the v4.master and it was working again. I copy-pasted the v4.master <head> contents into my custom master page and it started working again .. although when I double checked the contents they were IDENTICAL.

So far this was very very weird .. and the actual solution is even weirder.

It seems it was to do with my <title> element in the <head> tags being broken onto separate lines:
BAD
<title>
   <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server" />
</title>
GOOD
<title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server" /></title>
Why?? I have no idea .. but making this simple change solved the problem.
Bizarre eh?

4 comments:

  1. Hi Martin,

    Good session on sandbox solutions, I refered to you blog in a post about last nights session

    http://blog.sharepointsite.co.uk/2011/05/suguk-southampton-meet.html

    paul beck

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  2. Thanks, this seemed to alleviate an issue we had where SharePoint 2010 wiki pages would lose the title attribute in the browser tab while the page was in edit mode. Weird!

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  3. What the hell!!

    Cheers for the fix I reckon i could have wasted alot of time on this little gem.

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