Anybody else out there ever run into this? I have no idea how prevalent the issue is, or if it was just a fluke in my case but, shortly after getting a new laptop, I discovered that I was no longer able to edit lists in Datasheet mode on Bamboo's SharePoint 2010 portal. When I clicked the Edit in Datasheet button on the Ribbon, this was the response I got:
Given the range of not one, not two, but three possible sources of the problem (and given that I'd just gotten the new laptop), I asked Brett, Bamboo's Administrator extraordinaire, if he could help narrow down the source of the problem for me. In no time flat, he responded, suggesting that I try installing the 2007 Office System Driver: Data Connectivity Components and, after a super-easy download/install process, I was once again happily editing in Datasheet mode.
So if you've come to this post because you're seeing that same message, the same solution may very well work for you too. Good luck!
Posted
May 26 2011, 01:00 PM
by
John Anderson
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About John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.