Problem With Content Types Deployed In Solution As Feature

[Adam R Harris]

Hello All,

I am having a weird problem with deploying a content type as a feature. Here's the senario, I have 5 content types all inheriting from a base content type and the 5 'child' content types all have differant word templates associated with them. Now the content types deploy properly and I can create a library using those content types. So far so good but; when I try to create a new item in the library, using one of the content types deployed, the document information panel does not show up :sigh:

If I use SharePoint to create a new content type using my 'base' as its parent and upload a new template, really its just a template of one of the other content types, everything works fine and the document information panel now displays in Word.

Here is a snippet of the deployment XML from my elements file;

  <!-- Add The Fields -->
  .... Removed ...

  <!-- Add the word templates -->
  <Module Name="FormTemplates" Url="Forms" Path="ContentTypes" RootWebOnly="TRUE">
    <File Url="tp_concept.dotx" Name="Concept/tp_concept.dotx" Type="Ghostable" />;
  </Module>

  <!-- Create the content types -->
  <ContentType ID="0x01010095D264DCE89C4426A2E9BFC0AAF4F011" Name="KC Base"
               Description="" Sealed="true"
               FeatureId="4779EBDB-DEEE-4a4b-A5C0-09FB5C7A0CCF"
               Group="">
    <FieldRefs>
      .... Removed ...
    </FieldRefs>
  </ContentType>
  <ContentType ID="0x01010095D264DCE89C4426A2E9BFC0AAF4F01101" Name="Concept"
               Group="" Description="">
    <FieldRefs>
      .... Removed ...
    </FieldRefs>
    <DocumentTemplate TargetName="/Forms/Concept/tp_concept.dotx"/>
  </ContentType>

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