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I'm on page 59 of APress Phil Wicklund's "Professional Sitecore 8 Development".

I'm trying to add my Rendering to the "main" Placeholder.

Experience Editor => click inside the "Main" Placeholder => "Add here" => "Select Rendering" => "Select" .

"Message from Webpage" "an error occurred".

I've scoured all the logs from /data/logs/ but without seeing anything related.

Question: are there other places I need to look into, for more clues?

Thank you,

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  • I don’t think so. Are there any errors in the browser console?
    – Artem Prashkovich
    Nov 3, 2017 at 20:34
  • Hi Artsem, thanks, you just got me closer! "Could not find the rendering in the HTML loaded from server"
    – Coeur Dusite
    Nov 3, 2017 at 20:42
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    Does your component have at least 1 html tag (even if no datasource is selected and if in Experience Editor mode)?
    – Marek Musielak ♦
    Nov 3, 2017 at 20:54
  • Yes, it's the book very minimal: <div> @Html.Sitecore().Field(“Additional Text”) </div>
    – Coeur Dusite
    Nov 3, 2017 at 21:19
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    I see it's a known issue there: kb.sitecore.net/articles/867739
    – Coeur Dusite
    Nov 3, 2017 at 21:21

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You for sure have it going into the main placeholder? Do you have any renderings that do not have a placeholder specified?

What version of Sitecore are you running? Per the link @CoeuerDusite provided, it is a known issue:

To address the issue, apply one of the solutions below:
Always specify placeholder name for all presentation elements.
Upgrade website to Sitecore 8.0 rev. 150427 (Update-3) or newer, where this issue has been fixed.
Apply the patch as described below:
Put an Sitecore.Support.380995.v*.dll assembly into the \bin folder;
Put Siteocre.Support.380995.v*.config file into the \App_Config\Include folder.
Appropriate files can be retrieved from an archive, depending on the Sitecore version:
Sitecore 6.5 - 6.6: Sitecore.Support.380995.v1.zip - https://kb.sitecore.net/~/media/2C9A39977D8349EEB378F89245DC6D61.ashx?la=en
Sitecore 7.0 - 7.5: Sitecore.Support.380995.v2.zip - https://kb.sitecore.net/~/media/AE61B2778ACC4C108872F5F63519A67E.ashx?la=en
Sitecore 8.0: Sitecore.Support.380995.v3.zip - https://kb.sitecore.net/~/media/92301E04A678428CA7D13354B5F2E8FA.ashx?la=en
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  • Yes the main placeholder, and I've just trying specifying the main placeholder in the (View) Rendering, although that seems to make for tight coupling: doesn't it mean that now this Rendering cannot be used elsewhere than in this one Placeholder? In Phil Wicklund's book "Professional Sitecore 8 Development" from Apress, there wasn't instructions for doing this. Re-re-checking...
    – Coeur Dusite
    Nov 6, 2017 at 20:47
  • You are correct, that if you are specifying the placeholder in the rendering you are tightly coupling. Typically, you will place it in the placeholder via the Presentation Details.
    – David Walker
    Nov 8, 2017 at 14:39

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