Sharepoint page menu items gone?

Question

I'm running MOSS 2007 and have created a new site under an existing one using sitemanager.aspx. I've done this on two machines. on one of those everything works correctly, while on the other some of the menu items for pages in the site seem to be gone. Also on the faulty site I get "Access denied" when I click "Version history".

The permissions on both sites should be the same. I attach a screenshot of how the menus differ from each other. The one to the right (the faulty one) is unfortunately not in English but the items appearing on it are "Open link in a new window", "Copy", "Edit page settings" and "Version history". "View properties" and some more items are missing! What could have caused this?

Screenshot: hxxp://i40.tinypic.com/302naxx.jpg

Answer 1

This was a known issue that was fixed in the cumulative update from Feb 2009.

In short the RenderXMLUsingPattern attribute on a Field definition gets lost and has to be set back to TRUE.

Blog entry about the issue including solution