SharePoint 2007/2010: Editing a page without "Edit Page" option under Site Action
Context Sometimes it really annoying that I try editing a page in a sharepoint site and found that either the "Edit Page" option is deactivated or hidden under Site Actions. There are two probable reasons for that. The most common one that leads to this error is if the page is currently checked-out by some other user. So this option is deactivated. In other case, normally for all List's default pages such as NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx and ViewForm.aspx page's this specific option is disabled.. Now the question arises, how to edit a page in absence of "Edit page" option. Solution: Well what I found is that by simply adding this “?ToolPaneView=2” to the url of SharePoint redirects us to the edit mode of that specific page. For instance, If we have this page http://vaqar-hyder/sites/Users/CRUD_for_List.aspx . To land to the edit mode of this page simply change the URL to: http://vaqar-hyder/sites/Users/CRUD_for_List.aspx ?ToolPaneView=2 . ...