STS: Error Message When You View ASP Page: Cannot Complete This Action (282804)

SYMPTOMS

When you view an Active Server Pages (ASP) page in a Web browser, you receive the following error message:

Cannot complete this action.

Please try again.

If this problem persists, please contact your administrator.

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if you insert a FrontPage Web component on an ASP page in a Web site based on SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft. Web pages that contain FrontPage Web components, such as lists, document libraries, or discussion boards, cannot have an Active Server Pages (ASP) file extension. This can occur when a page that contains a FrontPage Web component is saved with the Active Server Pages (.asp) file extension.

For security reasons, either the ASP engine or FrontPage Server Extensions should process the HTTP request, but not both.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, use Microsoft FrontPage to open the SharePoint team Web site, and then rename the page with the Hypertext Markup Language (.htm) file extension.

WORKAROUND

A possible workaround to mixing ASP and SharePoint Team Services pages is to insert an inline frame (IFRAME) that references an external ASP page.

NOTE: This workaround uses HTML that may not be available in all browsers. For more information about this topic, please refer to the FrontPage 2002 Help sections about "compatibility".

Insert an Inline Frame

Open a page in FrontPage 2002, and then place the insertion point where you want to place the inline frame.
On the Insert menu, click Inline Frame.
Click the Set Initial Frame button.
Choose the ASP page that you want to include, and then click OK.

When a Web client browses the Web page, the ASP page will be retrieved separately and rendered by the ASP script engine in the inline frame.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about inline frames and other new FrontPage 2002 Features, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

281595 FP2002: New Features in FrontPage 2002