The following  error occurs when you try to view the data from another web application stored in a different configuration database  :

“Unable to open the site “URL”. Error message: The Web application at URL could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application.”

Trying to add Quest Web Part to the page and cannot locate it within web part gallery.

When running Data Gathering in Site Administrator for SharePoint the following error is seen in the QSPSCollector.log:

“12/02 11:41:25:654 | DBContentCollImpl_6.cpp(205) | 3568 | ERROR | Content DB collecting failed: Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘owner’, table ‘tempdb.dbo.#spdbdesc 00010001BA6D’; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.[EIP: 0x10068BB3,0x1007E271] 0x80040E2F
12/02 11:41:25:654 | ProcessStateReporter.cpp(181) | 3568 | DBG | (SetTaskStateInformation) ID ‘142bf077-cde0-4579-a77f-4b6367581e77’, Date ‘Thu 12/February/2009 11:41’, State ‘2’, Description ‘Cannot collect information from Virtual server content databases. Error: Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘owner’, table ‘tempdb.dbo.#spdbdesc 00010001BA6D’; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.'”


The Data Gathering finishes with non 100% result.

A Quest List View web part is sorted by a specific column by clicking on that column.The list is sorted but a red X is displayed at the top of the column instead of the expected graphic. It also says Sorted desc by the red X.

The error does not happen to allQuest Web Parts for SharePointwebparts, in fact,Quest Web Parts for SharePoint regular Selector web part, Cascading Menu web part and etc. are working just fine, but ListView and ListForm all error out with slightly different messages.

For List View, the following error message is received: The following error occurs: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

For List Form, the following error message is received: The following error occurs: The control must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server.

Having an issue with  Quest Web Parts for SharePoint – what should be sent to support?

A Quest List Form is being used to create a new list item in a site.
A lookup column has been created to bring in the values for a particular column (Company, for example)
from a list. Sometimes, in the drop-down for the lookup column the same Company name can show
more than once. How can the drop-down list only display unique values?

The Application Templates have been downloaded and installed on a SharePoint server. However,after instantiating a template, an error is received when trying to instantiate one of the templates.  

Here is the error message text:

An error occurred during the processing of /personal/administrator/CRM/default.aspx. Could not load file or assembly ‘WA.DataViewer, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=2b4b09f1c57c8f0b’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Troubleshoot issues with Windows SharePoint Services.
 

A general guide to creating list forms and the process is below.