Forum OpenACS Development: wimpy point 5.2.x (latest avail apparently) on openacs-5.5 crash

Hi...

So I want to get wimpy working under 5.5 but it's crashing in the template for add-edit-slide in the midst of producing the form identified by id="f".

The error I get is from tcl,

no such element 'elements(sec_fieldset)'

and I'm not seeing anywhere in the code that refers to that. In fact, it looks like elements is not an array but a list, since on line 119 of add-edit-slide.tcl has

set elements [list]

and later on line 138

lappend elements [list $element]

so I'm guessing the 'elements' the error msg is talking about is in a different stack frame than the one that's visible in the code.

I'm searching in the code for sec_fieldset and I see one on line 3 of acs-templating/resources/forms/standard.adp,

<fieldset id="@elements.form_id@:@elements.section@" @elements.sec_fieldset;noquot
e@>!-- section fieldset --

so elements is supposed to be a multiple. I'm expecting to find this 'elements' created inside ad_form; I'm still investigating.

this xowiki + s5 looks interesting... I'll look at it soon. Right now, I'm not prepared to deal with xotcl; I would want to know the language and have some experience with it before putting it on a production server. Additionally, wp offers me some things I still want (public/private presentations, permissions to edit/view).

I'm about to thank Emma for pointing me at the solution to the wp add-slide thing; it's fixed now.

-Jim

Hey there Emma...

Thanks a lot, I was able to get the page working in about 10 mins.

I'd like to suggest the error message was somewhat obscure, and I only bring that up because I think it can easily be improved:

ad_form checks normal elements for the presence of {section ...} attributes,

If found, write out an error message which is basically your message to me, including the link that explains the situation.

-Jim