StaticName property differs from list to ContentType (BUG)

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today I came across a really annoying bug inside SharePoint. Imagine you create a simple task list and you enable the management of content types. If you get into deeper analysis of the fields inside that list you will notice that the name of the “Status” field differs from the one used inside the content-type [...]

Cannot complete this action – error when adding a ContentType to a list

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today I got a nice error from my SharePoint development box after I tried to add a certain Content Type to a list. Cannot complete this action. Please try again. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.AddField(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, String bstrSchemaXml, Int32 grfAdd) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddField(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, String bstrSchemaXml, Int32 grfAdd) Tell me This is an error message [...]