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SP Error: A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user.

Today I tried to get a custom Sharepoint web part to work. It was no fun because I had a pretty simple (once you figured it out) and tedious error.

I added my custom web part on a standard SharePoint web part page and tried to edit the web part properties. I tried to just click on OK, Apply or Cancel I always got the following annoying message:
A Web Part you attempted to change is either invalid or has been removed by another user.
After spending a couple of hours, even with an experienced collegue, I finally found an interesting article:
http://williamvanstrien.blogspot.com/2010/01/alluserswebpart-and-spwebapplicationapp.html
William pointed out that it is a really bad thing to set the ID of a webpart control:
"...When you add a control within an .aspx file, Visual Studio automatically add a default 'ID' property to the control. For the default WebPart however this is not needed, the property is actually set when creating a publishing page off this PageLayout. But the mere presence of it in the default part results in SharePoint detecting a concurrent update..."

Hence I removed the ID property of my web part and everything was good!


Removing the ID was the very simple trick to this issue.

Thank you Microsoft for providing us developers/users so meaningful error messages.
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  1. UnknownNovember 8, 2016 at 9:47 PM

    In my case, we were out of disk space in SQL.
    http://www.sharepointindepth.com/a-web-part-you-attempted-to-change-is-either-invalid-or-has-been-removed-by-another-user/

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  2. UnknownNovember 8, 2016 at 9:48 PM

    In my case, we were out of disk space in SQL.
    http://www.sharepointindepth.com/a-web-part-you-attempted-to-change-is-either-invalid-or-has-been-removed-by-another-user/

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