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Question

Hello All,
I am getting the following error when I tried to change the page layout of a publishing page in my site collection using SharePoint 2010.
  Here I am just trying to change the page layout to "Four Item Grid" page layout. But i am not sure why this error is coming up.
I tried to search in the internet but no one has this kind of issue it seems.
 Can anybody help me in resolving this issue.

Answer 1

I had this same problem when trying to change the layout on a publishing page.
What I found by running some powershell script against the pages library is that the ows_PublishingPageLayout field actually referenced a layout url from another site. What had happend is that an author downloaded a copy of a page from one site and
uploaded it to another site. Evidently when you do this the url reference to the page layout file does not get corrected (it's fully qualified)
To fix this problem I wrote some powershell script to update the ows_PublishingPageLayout url so the site host url was corrected and did not have the old/original site's url.
    $SiteUrl = "http://your.site.url.here"
    $SPSite = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($SiteUrl); 
    $OpenWeb = $SpSite.OpenWeb(); 
    $publishingWeb = [Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb]::GetPublishingWeb($OpenWeb)    
    $AllPubLayouts = $publishingWeb.GetAvailablePageLayouts()
    $pages = $OpenWeb.Lists["Pages"]
   #view all page layouts
   foreach ($page in $pages.Items)
        if (!$page["ows_PublishingPageLayout"].ToString().Contains($SiteUrl))
            write-host $page.url
            write-host $page["ows_PublishingPageLayout"]