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Aug 1, 2011, 4:29 PM
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error "error loading \custom.xsp.it is not valid to define a page or custome control with a reference to itself"

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  • Release: 8.5.3
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whenever I am draging custom control to xpages , I am getting following error
 
error "error loading \custom.xsp.it is not valid to define a page or custome control with a reference to itself"
 
I dont understand what could be possible reason for the problem. this error i am getting on both local and development server.
 
 
Thanks. Deve01 
 
 
 
 
Aug 1, 2011, 6:40 PM
272 Posts
Re: error "error loading \custom.xsp.it is not valid to define a page or custome control w...
Hi,
 
it seems that you have a cyclic reference to an element. This is not allowed. A custom control and/or XPage cannot contain itself.
Try to add an empty custom control. If you can save the XPage without warning, it is the problem described here.
 
Sven
Aug 2, 2011, 4:36 AM
5 Posts
Re: error "error loading \custom.xsp.it is not valid to define a page or custome control w...
even I am adding empty custom control it is gving same error. also whenever i am opening the custom control i created ..
it gives me same error whenever i am creating it.
 
Thanks Deve01
Aug 2, 2011, 7:41 AM
272 Posts
Re: error "error loading \custom.xsp.it is not valid to define a page or custome control w...
What if you create an empty XPage in an empty database? If there is still this error message, try to do the same from a different notes installation / other computer.
Another interessting thing is the backslash before the XPage-Name...
Aug 2, 2011, 8:25 PM
64 Posts
You could always try the "delete the workspace directory" hack...
- Sounds like DDE has wonked out, which happens.  The fixes in order of severity:
 
1. Relaunch and delete cache.ndk while Notes is not active.  This very rarely works since 8.5+.
2. Close Notes, delete (rename, move) the workspace directly under the Notes application directory, and relaunch.  This often works but erases most custom settings, like folding.
3. There is a command line switch to Notes, that I don't recall, which causes it to run the "new install" sequence; run Notes with that switch.  This will utterly eradicate all your settings.
4. Completely delete and reinstall Notes.  This is only marginally more destructive than step 3.
 
- Despite years of begging I have never gotten Lotus to tell me all the places that DDE & Notes cache things.  With R8.0- it was pretty much always in cache.ndk.  With R8.5+ it's scattered all over the workspace directory and possibly beyond.
 
Hope this helps...

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