Sitecore 9 Update 1 - Bug saving Shared Layout in Experience Editor

February 1, 2018 Rodrigo Peplau 0

A few weeks ago, while upgrading one of at Nish Tech’s early-stages projects into Sitecore 9 Update 1, a very strange behavior when you try to do a very simple task: edit a Shared Layout of a page in Experience Editor.

When you try to do that, the infamous screen “Layout not Set” shows right after saving.

Initially, I observed that when saving in a _Standard Values, but later I noticed it can also happen with ordinary items. If you want to see how to reproduce the error, check this video.

Interesting enough, when you look at your Layout and Final Layout fields in Raw mode, you notice that the Shared Layout has a value such as:

<r xmlns:p=”p” xmlns:s=”s” p:p=”1″><d id=”{FE5D7FDF-89C0-4D99-9AA3-B5FBD009C9F3}”><r uid=”{597C17AD-DEF3-4947-BE5B-4104A2143F17}” p:after=”*[1=2]” s:id=”{493B3A83-0FA7-4484-8FC9-4680991CF743}” s:ph=”/main/centercolumn/content” /></d></r>

Which seems to have a more appropriate syntax to be in the Final Layout field instead, as you can check if you match this against the original value:

<r xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”><d id=”{FE5D7FDF-89C0-4D99-9AA3-B5FBD009C9F3}” l=”{14030E9F-CE92-49C6-AD87-7D49B50E42EA}”><r ds=”” id=”{885B8314-7D8C-4CBB-8000-01421EA8F406}” par=”” ph=”main” uid=”{43222D12-08C9-453B-AE96-D406EBB95126}” /><r ds=”” id=”{CE4ADCFB-7990-4980-83FB-A00C1E3673DB}” par=”” ph=”/main/centercolumn” uid=”{CF044AD9-0332-407A-ABDE-587214A2C808}” /><r ds=”” id=”{493B3A83-0FA7-4484-8FC9-4680991CF743}” par=”” ph=”/main/centercolumn/content” uid=”{B343725A-3A93-446E-A9C8-3A2CBD3DB489}” /></d><d id=”{46D2F427-4CE5-4E1F-BA10-EF3636F43534}” l=”{14030E9F-CE92-49C6-AD87-7D49B50E42EA}”><r ds=”” id=”{493B3A83-0FA7-4484-8FC9-4680991CF743}” par=”” ph=”content” uid=”{A08C9132-DBD1-474F-A2CA-6CA26A4AA650}” /></d></r>

Sitecore Helpdesk heroes

Then I reported the issue to our amazing Sitecore Helpdesk, who after a couple weeks came out with a bugfix, that now I want to share with our Sitecore Community.

I would like to thank the whole gang of superheroes at Sitecore Helpdesk, for providing this good HotFix in a proper time and allowing me to share it, in special to Igor Denisenko, Pavel Ivashchenko and Ielyzaveta Kalinchuk, the good guys who replied to my ticket. You are awesome, mates!

The cure: HotFix 203387

You can find the hotfix at this link.

• Please be aware that the hotfix was built specifically for Sitecore XP 9.0 rev. 171219 (Update-1)! You should not install it on other Sitecore versions or in combination with other hotfixes unless explicitly instructed by Sitecore Support;
• Note that you need to extract ZIP file contents to locate installation instructions and related files inside it.

If you have anything to add on this, please drop a comment and let me know!

Categories: Bug fixing, Experience Editor, Support Ticket, Uncategorized