[AJAX-TreeMenu] ezodcsm extension discussion

Thursday 20 April 2006 3:50:22 am

The virtual_folders branch contains the improvements David wrote about on the 5th April in this thread. That branch also includes the 1.0.8 changes that are in the trunk.

The trunk contains the 1.0.8 changes.

You do need to read through this thread to see whats what :)

Paul

Thursday 20 April 2006 4:14:30 am

Yip, that changelog doesnt have the additions. 1.0.8 wasnt released but it should have the additions in it i agree. I often rely on the svn log for changes:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/log.php?repname=community&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fextension%2Fezodcsm%2F&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1

Could you try the virtual_folders branch? That may fix this. The changelog should be correct. Im hoping that if testing of this branch is successful we can release it soon.

Thursday 20 April 2006 6:03:45 am

With the virtual_folders version 1.0.8 the 'Sebastian' problem disappears, but I got some new ones:

1. After I first opened a treenode, a virtual folder appeared, but I didn't want it there so I changed the sorting of the node from 'published descending' to 'name ascending'. Then I got an extemely long page load time which I interrupted after 2 minutes or so. The errorlog contained hundreds of identical messages (about 5 per second) saying: Error ocurred using URI: /deu/culture_asef/multi (which is the node I changed the sorting of.
I actually had to reboot. Apache would not even restart using the normal Apache restart control. After reboot it seemed ok. So far...

2. With debug enabled, I get the following messages:

Debug:  	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
START URI: design:contentstructuremenu/dynamic_content_structure_menu.tpl, extension/ezodcsm/design/standard/templates/contentstructuremenu/dynamic_content_structure_menu.tpl

Warning: eZTemplate:eZURLOperator 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Design element stylesheets/on_demand_content_structure_menu.css does not exist in any design

Notice: 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
eZTemplate: Loading template "contentstructuremenu/show_dynamic_content_structure.tpl" with resource "design"

Notice: 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
extension/ezodcsm/design/standard/templates/contentstructuremenu/show_dynamic_content_structure.tpl, iso-8859-1

Debug: 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
START URI: design:contentstructuremenu/show_dynamic_content_structure.tpl, extension/ezodcsm/design/standard/templates/contentstructuremenu/show_dynamic_content_structure.tpl

Warning: eZTemplate:def 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Variable 'itemClickAction' is already defined.

Warning: eZTemplate:def 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Variable 'classIconsSize' is already defined.

Warning: eZTemplate:def 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Variable 'preloadClassIcons' is already defined.

Warning: eZTemplate:def 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Variable 'autoopenCurrentNode' is already defined.

Warning: eZTemplate:def 	Apr 20 2006 14:52:06
Variable 'children_with_children' is already defined.

Thursday 20 April 2006 6:49:18 am

"the css should be picked up automatiicaly by the system."

There is actually no stylesheets directory present in the ezodcsm extension. Only javascript and templates, in bothe admin and standard designs.

Friday 21 April 2006 12:35:25 pm

I tried running the version from the virtual_folders branch, but get a JavaScript error on Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2. On FireFox it runs fine.

The error message is "Object expected" on the line with this: "ezodcst_removeYearAndMonthNodesFromOpenNodesList();"

I tried removing that line from the dynamic_content_structure_menu.tpl and then the menu runs fine. I can't understand why I get that error message, any ideas?

Anders

Wednesday 03 May 2006 9:38:22 am

I just installed 3.8.0 today, and odcsm has a problem displaying the languages in the popup menu under the item 'Edit in >'. It only shows 'Another language', and fails to show the existing translations.
If I don't use the odcsm extension, all existing languages appear in this popup menu item.
Is there a ini setting that I overlooked? or is this a bug?

Wednesday 03 May 2006 10:12:22 am

Update for 3.8, yes. I was under the impression that many people alreay used it with pre-releases of 3.8, but I guess this feature was not included yet.
Should there be a 3.8 branch of odcsm?

Personally, I find the virtual folders branch already a bit superfluous, since you can disable the virtual folders anyway (like I do).

I might attempt to fix this issue for 3.8, since I use the Edit item of the popup menu very often.... Don't know if any of you are planning to do this anytime soon.

Monday 05 June 2006 5:09:42 am

Hi folks,

Im really confused regarding the performance of the ezodcsm extension on 3.8.0.
I noticed that when activating the extension, performance dropped dramatically.
A fetch of a content page in the admin interface normally takes 1-3 seconds. With this menu activated, it takes 25-40 seconds.

I enabled the debug output, and there I can see evidence of this delay - there are over 4000 SQL queries executed in every reload of the admin page!

While disabling the ezodcsm,I get my ordinary 1-3 seconds performance, and almost none of the SQL queries...

It seems like the menu in some way requires the server to go through all of the (huge...) content tree, even though the thought of the Ajax menu is NOT to do that...(right?)

Any ideas? Can I have made a misconfiguration, or is it just a plain, simple bug?

Best regards,
/Nicklas

Nicklas Lundgren, Managing Director
Novitell AB, Sweden

Friday 09 June 2006 6:19:36 pm

some improvments to odcontentstructuremenu.js

function newOdcsmRequest:

function newOdcsmRequest(){
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest){ //First the right way...

		return new XMLHttpRequest();

	} else if (window.ActiveXObject){ //Then the original way..

		var IE_XMLHTTP = new Array( 'MSXML2.XMLHTTP',
									'MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0',
									'MSXML2.XMLHTTP.5.0',
									'MSXML2.XMLHTTP.4.0',
									'MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0',
									'Microsoft.XMLHTTP');

		for(var i=0; i < IE_XMLHTTP.length; i++){
			try{
				return new ActiveXObject(IE_XMLHTTP[i]);
			} catch (e) {
			}
		}
    }
     return false;
}

and the last line:

odcsmRequest = newOdcsmRequest();

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Sunday 18 June 2006 2:46:13 pm

Please add a cze-CZ translation of the "Please wait..." message as follows:

Nahrávám...

As a temporary fix to use the "Edit in" item from the pop-up menu with multiple language sites on eZ publish 3.8.1 svn, try the following (it works for me):

1) replace ezodcsm/design/admin/javascript/popupmenu/ezpopupmenu.js with the one from the 3.8.1 eZPublish (it is in design/standard/javascript/popupmenu/ezpopupmenu.js)

2) replace ezodcsm/design/admin/templates/popup/popup_menu.tpl with the one from the 3.8.1 eZPublish (it is in design/admin/templates/popupmenu/popup_menu.tpl)

3) in ezodcsm/design/standard/templates/contentstructuremenu/show_dynamic_content_structure.tpl find "ezpopmenu_showTopLevel" (it is around line 189) and extend the ez_createAArray in this way:

ez_createAArray( new Array
( '%nodeID%', {$:thisNode.node_id}, '%objectID%', {$:thisObject.id}, '%languages%', {$:thisObject.language_js_array} ) )

Then, after clearing caches both in ezpublish and your browser, it should work.

Regards, Petr