"The page cannot be displayed" error message when you try to open a Visio XML drawing (.vdx) in a document library on your Windows SharePoint Services site (832815)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, when used with:
- Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
- Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
SYMPTOMSYou may find that you cannot open a Microsoft Office Visio
2003 XML drawing (.vdx file) that is located in the document library of a
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web site. When you connect to the
document library, and then click the link to the Visio XML drawing, you receive
the following error message: The page cannot be
displayed
Cannot find server or DNS error. CAUSEThis issue may occur if either one of the following
conditions is true:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer associates the .vsd extension
with the .vdx file that you want to open. The .vsd and .vdx extensions use the
same MIME type setting of "application/vnd.visio" (without the quotation
marks). In situations when a file is saved to the local disk, Internet Explorer
may associate the .vsd extension instead of the .vdx extension with a .vdx
file.
- The .vdx extension is not registered in Windows SharePoint
Services as a file type that you can edit by using Visio 2003. By default, the
.vdx extension is not configured with the Edit in Microsoft Office
Visio option in Windows SharePoint Services.
WORKAROUNDTo work around this issue, use one of the following methods,
as appropriate to your situation. Method 1: Modify the MIME mapping for the .vdx extension in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 To modify the MIME mapping for the .vdx extension in IIS, follow
these steps:
- Start Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
- Right-click
ServerName, and then click
Properties.
- Click MIME Types.
- In the MIME Types dialog box, click
the entry for .vdx, and then click Edit.
- In the MIME type box, type
application/vnd.visio.xml, and then click
OK.
- Click OK, and then click
OK.
- Restart IIS. To do so, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then click
Run.
- In the Open box, type
cmd, and then click OK.
- At the command prompt, type
iisreset, and then press ENTER.
- Type exit, and then press ENTER
to exit Command Prompt.
Method 2: Configure the .vdx extension to use the Edit with Microsoft Office Visio option in Windows SharePoint ServicesAdd the .vdx extension to the list of file types in the
DocTypes.xml file that use the Edit with Microsoft Office Visio
option. After you do so, when you click a Visio XML drawing (.vdx)
file in the document library of a Windows SharePoint Services Web site, the
Edit in Microsoft Office Visio command is displayed on the
submenu that appears. To add the .vdx extension to the list of file
types that use the Edit with Microsoft Office Visio option,
follow these steps:
- Edit the Docicon.xml file to include the .vdx extension. To
do so, follow these steps:
- Start Notepad, and then open the Docicon.xml file. The
Docicon.xml file is located in the following folder on the Web server:
Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\60\Template\xml
- Locate the following line:
<Mapping Key="vdx" Value="icvdx.gif"/> - Edit the line that you located in step 1b so that it
reads as follows:
<Mapping Key="vdx" Value="icvdx.gif" EditText="Microsoft Office Visio" OpenControl="SharePoint.OpenDocuments"/> - On the File menu, click
Save, and then quit Notepad.
- Restart IIS. To do so, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then click
Run.
- In the Open box, type
cmd, and then click OK.
- At the command prompt, type
iisreset, and then press ENTER.
- Type exit, and then press ENTER
to exit Command Prompt.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 9/27/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbXML kberrmsg kbBug KB832815 kbAudITPRO |
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