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Article ID: 830974 - Last Review: February 5, 2007 - Revision: 3.5

You receive the "An error occurred while processing the data for this request" error message when you click a Data View Web Part link

SYMPTOMS

When you click a link that connects to a Data View Web Part, you may receive the following error message:
An error occurred while processing the data for this request. Contact the server administrator for more information

CAUSE

This issue may occur if all the following conditions are true:
  • Your page contains a Data View Web Part that is based on data that uses absolute URLs.
  • These URLs are used as the provider for a connection to another Web Part on the same page.
  • The connection passes parameters that are based on the file name to modify the second Data View.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, open the page in Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 by using code view, and remove the InputFile ParameterBinding default value. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Locate the following code:
    <ParameterBinding Name="InputFile" Location="Connection" DefaultValue="File_Name"/>
    (Where File_Name is the name of the file associated with the second Data View Web Part).
  2. Remove the InputFile ParameterBinding default value so that the code looks similar to the following:
    <ParameterBinding Name="InputFile" Location="Connection" DefaultValue=""/>
  3. Save the Web page.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
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Xerxel Reported as Irrelevant  
Written: 11/2/2004 2:16 PM
You can still get this problem even if there's no InputFile in the page. So there must be more to this problem than given here.

Billal Reported as Irrelevant  
Written: 8/16/2005 7:34 AM
Totally agree with the message above, this solution doesn't work!

Anonymous User Report As Irrelevant  
Written: 12/7/2005 2:31 PM
did not help me at all!!! must be some other problem

Swiss Report As Irrelevant  
Written: 5/9/2006 8:20 AM
The error message isn't helpful. We found the solution using KB821959. The data source was missing a primary key.

Asem - anairat NOSPAM-AT-NOSPAM infinitetiers.com Report As Irrelevant  
Written: 7/23/2007 8:32 AM
i used a data viewer web part, it displays results when i give it an internal RSS Feed (internal in our network), but i gave it an external RSS Feed like CNN news, it gives me this error message "An error occurred while processing the data for this request. Contact the server administrator for more information." i think the problem is proxy server!! so what should i do to solve this problem?! i'm using WSS 3.0 released version

Feef Report As Irrelevant  
Written: 6/11/2008 8:12 PM
This KB does not help. We are using WSS3.0 and are trying to implement RSS Feeds. It could be that WSS does not allow web application to reference to content on another web application.

Anonymous User Report As Irrelevant  
Written: 8/21/2008 9:29 AM
This did not work for me even though I read this comment on another blog