Very big problem: deleted sections

Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46:11 pm

I'm very desperate.

I still have all my data, but my designs ain't working no more. I had a few, but after the above not one of them is working.. everything is showing me the admin design....

Friday 26 December 2003 4:32:25 am

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You used the admin interface to remove some sections from within the "Set up" tab and the "Sections" submenu? How many custom sections did you have? How many sections do you think you removed?
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Yes,I deleted some sections form the within the "Setup up" tab + "Sections" submenu. I know this is really stupid, I thought I knew what I was doing. :-(

I think I removed 3 or 4 sections, they were some old one that "was" not being used by us: (just from the sql of the earlier installation with example data)

One of them was User section (id: 9), (pfff.. what was I thinking), maybe another one called "Standard" (I don't remember this one very good) and 1 or 2 more....

I'm using ez 3.2.4. Is there any hope? :(
Everything else seems to be working perfectly.

-Shurbann

Friday 26 December 2003 6:52:47 am

Hi

This happed quite a few times with me too. You can use the admin interface to restore user sections: just create a new one (preferrably with the name Users) and assign it to the users. And important: assign the navigation part to Users as well

hth

-paul

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Friday 26 December 2003 2:11:04 pm

> Paul what do you mean with "assign the
> navigation part to Users as well" ?

I believe that he means the following:

1) Fire up the admin interface
2) Login as admin
3) Click on the "Set up" tab
4) Click on "Sections"
5) Locate "Users" - click the "edit" icon on that line
6) From the "Navigation part" dropdown box: select "Users".
7) Click "Store"

Same procedure for Media... set it to "media"..
Same procedure for Standard... set it to "content"...

Balazs

Friday 26 December 2003 2:29:26 pm

Balasz,

Thank you very much for your really fast reply.
I did what you told me.

The sections 1 - 4 was already like that. These sections was lke that since I first started with eZ 3.0.x. There was an sql file where you could input some data to start with

I just added the new section( Users <11>, Media <12> and Standard <13>), gave them the right navigation part. And assigned them to the parts I want (Standard -> /<root>)
(Media -> Media)
(Users -> Users)

This is the the DB:

select * from ezsection;
+----+------------------+--------+----------------------------+
| id | name | locale |navigation_part_idenfifier | navigation_part_identifier
+----+------------------+--------+----------------------------+
| 1 | bnknet | eng-GB | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
| 2 | solarvibes | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
| 3 | students | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
| 4 | offline | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
| 10 | link | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
| 11 | Users | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezusernavigationpart
| 12 | Media | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezmedianavigationpart
| 13 | Standard | | ezcontentnavigationpart | ezcontentnavigationpart
+----+------------------+--------+----------------------------+

Still it's not working, http://localhost/index.php/www is still showing the admin design.

I see is that the DB doesn't seem to resemble what you told me in the post with the insert SQL lines.
I have two navigation_part_identifier.

Saturday 27 December 2003 3:00:27 am

Hello again,

I thought you were running a more recent version of eZ publish. 3.0.x is considered to be quite "old" :-). Later versions only have 4 fields in the ezsection table - that's why my suggested SQL commands didn't work with your system. However, it seems that you managed to figure it out yourself and that you restored the missing sections so that the section-table was back in its normal/previous state. Why it is not working now is a mystery.

If you simply just deleted the sections and restored them later on (exactly as they were before the deletion) then I assume that it should work again. Are you completely sure that your section definitions are 100% correct (compared to what you had before you deleted them)?

I'm afraid you'll have to wait until some of the hardcore eZ systems guys show up again (we're supposed to be on vacation until 2004-Jan-02)... ...or perhaps someone else in the forum can help you... good luck! :-)

Balazs