Attempting to associate templates with pages from migration

2025/03/11 10:43 PM

I am attempting to associate pages that I migrated over from an older instance with new page templates that were created for items of that type, but I am getting this error:

InvalidOperationException: The web page (WebPageItemID: '7096', Content type: Convenience.Page) is requested to be rendered via a page template (called 'TemplateResult' in a MVC controller). However, the web page does not have a page template assigned. Re-create the page and select a page template during the web page creation process.

Is there a way to assign a template to these pages without having to re-create them or else what is the point of migrating them over? There are literally thousands of pages and so re-creating them all isn't really an option. I've been trying to see if there is somewhere in the database that it assigns a template value but have not been able to successfully locate it.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Environment

  • Xperience by Kentico version: [30.0.0]
  • .NET version: [8]
  • Execution environment: [SaaS, but localhost]

Answers

2025/03/11 11:23 PM

Check out Diagnosing Xperience by Kentico Page Template issues.

My recommendation would be to use a SQL migration in CI and CD to update all web pages that need to use a Page Template now but were created before there were any registered.

  1. Create a new page and select the Page Template you've registered.
  2. Query for the page template configuration\ 
    SELECT WP.WebPageItemTreePath, CD.ContentItemCommonDataVisualBuilderTemplateConfiguration
FROM CMS_ContentItemCommonData AS CD
INNER JOIN CMS_WebPageItem AS WP
    ON CD.ContentItemCommonDataContentItemID = WP.WebPageItemContentItemID
  3. Write a migration query to update the pages that need to use the same configuration

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