Forum OpenACS Q&A: problem with users adding home pages

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1: problem with users adding home pages
Posted by clifford smith on 12/15/00 01:36 AM
I used the pre-built RPMs on a stock Redhat 6.2 box - everything
installed swimmingly, except:

When on the Homepage Maintenance screen when I choose "create file" -
or any of the other options on that page,  I do not get the form to
add a page - I get a simple two tone blue box in the middle of the
screen that says "Filesystem Part of the Arsdigita Community
System      by Usman Y. Mobin."
thanks ahead of time -
Clifford

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2: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by James Harris on 12/15/00 02:46 AM
I have the same problem.  It happens with all the modules that use "Usman Y. Mobin's generic dialog class".  I notice that there are a lot of HTML tags in the URL which look like they would create a form if they were contained in the page.
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3: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by clifford smith on 12/15/00 02:53 AM
Right - In the URL title bar I see what looks like the code to fill out the form.....hmmm...
Clifford
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4: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by Sarah Barwig on 12/15/00 09:24 PM
When I first met up with the Homepage module, I realized that dialog-class.tcl had to go. So I set about excising it from the code. I still have the tarball -- although it's the ClassicACS, so you'd have to port it to OpenACS.

Basically, Usman decided that all errors and system communications should take place on the same page. To wit, dialog-class.tcl. So, every time you do something that the homepage module doesn't like, it sends you to this thing that looks an awful lot like a Windows Dialog Box TM.

I'm not sure which error you're running into, for the simple reason that _all_ errors get caught and masked by this dialog-class.tcl. And, apparently, this is a relatively non-descript error message.

I personally feel that the only way to use the homepage module is to excise the dialog-class.tcl file (and all references to it) from the entire thing, and to throw errors straight from the page. Maybe by using regular error pages like the rest of the ACS (Open or Classic) uses...

My $0.02

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5: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by Adam Farkas on 12/15/00 11:13 PM
Perhaps this change should be included in OpenACS 3.2.5.
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6: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 12/16/00 05:59 AM
Yeah, Adam, probably so.  What Sarah's saying, of course, is that
thus far we've offered an accurate port of OpenACS's screwed-up
behavior (though we're versions behind ACS Classic 3.4x, of course).

So ... if sarah or someone comes up with a clean fix for the module,
I'll try to find time to commit then to the cvs tree, where they'll
find there way into the OpenACS 3.2.5.

OK, for the peanut gallery - this one's an aD bug-ugly mistake.
Several recent posts have pointed out OpenACS port errors, and PG
misbehavior (UNION and ORDER BY) so it ain't all aD's fault that
OpenACS has some rough edges.

But aD does have a role in OpenACS reliability.  We caught a lot of
obvious ACS Classic bugs and fixed them while porting, but missed
plenty, too - and added some of our own.

So keep these bug reports a-rollin'....

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7: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by finn knudsen on 03/21/01 11:57 AM
Hi all

I know this is an old thread, so I was wandering if the problem had been solved. I have this problem with all modules using the dialog-class.tcl.

Regard

Finn Knudsen

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8: Response to problem with users adding home pages (response to 1)
Posted by Vinod Kurup on 03/21/01 04:56 PM
Yep,

I've ported this and placed it here. There's more explanation in this thread.