The ContentViewDefinition with name * does not exist in conf

Hi i'm getting the following error when trying to view one of my content items. This seems to have just happened by itself. It was working a short time ago but then i came back to it and it's not loading. I've checked the config files for changes but nothing has occured. Looking in DynamicModulesConfig.config everything seems to be there so not sure what the issue coould be.

Any help would be awesome, thanks!

Hello Jack,

A possible cause for this error could be insufficient permissions to your App_Data folder, thus when you have created the dynamic module, Sitefinity was unable to properly outline it`s structure in your config files.
If this happens on a brand new project, a permission issue is the most likely reason for this, so make sure your application pool identity has read / write access as defined in our onlyne documentation:
http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/installation-and-administration-guide/install-sitefinity/configuring-the-iis-to-host-sitefinity-projects

If this is an upgraded project, then obviously something went wrong during the upgrade (again could be a permission issue or else) and the best resolution is to perform the upgrade sequence again.

To summarize, for some reason DynamicModulesConfig.config was corrupted (has missing nodes in it). If it`s not due to upgrade I could advise you to recreate the module (could be on a brand new project) and compare the config generated with the one from your project. Note that when you modify your config file, always keep a backup copy of them.

I hope this information helps.

Regards,
Vassil Vassilev
Telerik

Hi Vassil thanks for the reply.

The site is about 3-4 months into build at the moment and all permissions are ok on App_Data.
This has been fine up until now and is just this one content item. Looking back through version control of what has been changed i can see nothing related to the content item in question. This makes me think that there may be a database component to the issue, or something outside of the config files - maybe some conflicting code.

We did upgrade to v7 when it was launched (due to some required functionality) but this was some weeks back. I'm gonna try exporting the content item, deleting it and re-importing - as a colleague said this worked for him. I'll report back if i get it working - luckily no content has been added for this item yet !!

I'm having the same problem. I was able to use this module long enough to add a few pieces of content. Came back the next day to add more, and now I get this error too. This is disconcerting. Any ideas, anyone?

Hi Ed,

Could you please check your content view config for the module record:

Ran into the same issue.  Seems like when adding content types/modules the data is not all in the database. Rather configuration files (as noted above) are also being changed in the project.  In our case we had a new deployment of the project which overwrote the previous config files...  I added the contentviewconfig.config entries that were missing.  That got me past the 500 error when the content types were being viewed in the application. however, the content list itself is empty despite the content appearing in the site itself.  Something else I am missing that got overwritten?

Update: we have a multi-site setup.  Something with dataprovider name in DynamicConfigManager.config seemed to be wrong.  The values had changed for my content types.  I reverted the values.  Then I had to go in each site and configure modules.  After selecting the module, I had to press change. There were 2 (!) entries listed for that site.  I unselected one and selected other.  after that I was able to see the content.

Hello,

The providers for the dynamic modules are listed in the configuration file. The relations between the providers and the sites are stored in the database - [sf_site_data_source_links].

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik