ACP parent-category picker not working
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@miluo said:
Hi, I installed the latest code (I guess it is on master branch, not the 0.5.1 release code.when i go to ACP to create category - seems like the parent-category picker not functional well.....
Could you be a little more specific? "Not functional" and "doesn't work" unfortunately doesn't help us. Have you refreshed your cache after upgrading? Did you run "npm up" after upgrading to make sure everything is up to date? Did you restart/reload Nodebb after upgrading?
If yes to all of those, please give us more details, screenshots, anything that may help.
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@a_5mith I did not upgrade, but did a fresh install on my local as follows:
git clone https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb
sudo npm install
./nodebb setup
./nodebb startwhen I go to ACP to add parent-category for a category - it did popup a window show a list of categories -- however when i click on of the category (anyone) - not response..
Now I tried to install the 0.5.1 release code, here is what i did:
wget https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/archive/v0.5.1.zip
unzip v0.5.1.zip
cd NodeBB-0.5.1/
sudo npm install
./nodebb setup
./nodebb starti cleaned browser cache. also I did "flushall" on redis database before I run nodebb setup.
i assume i do not need to do git pull the vanilla theme.
this time when i go to ACP category - it show a blank page, even though the home page show 12 categores.
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@miluo Looks like you've got two nodebb folders now then, one called
nodebb, and another calledNodeBB-0.5.1.The official method for pulling stable is
git clone -b v0.5.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebbThe actual files look fine, I would imagine that when you flushed the database (not a required step), it may have deleted the categories. When you ran nodebb setup a second time, did it ask you to create an admin again?
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@a_5mith
(1)yes it did ask me to provide admin name, password. i provided it.
(2) yes I have 2 folders. but i shutted down the nodebb process from one folder ～／nodebb , and from ~/nodebb-0.5.1 i did: nodebb start.
(do i need to do: npm up ? I did not do that I assume npm install will take care everything). -
@miluo For a fresh install,
npm installis sufficient. I wasn't sure if you'd upgraded or if it was a new install.
I'll mention @julian into this topic as he'll have a better idea on what could have gone wrong with your install.
You could try running
git checkout v0.5.xthengit pullin your nodebb-0.5.1 folder. Then restarting nodebb with./nodebb restart. That would ensure you were actually on a stable branch. Then we can work from there with any other issues you may be encountering. -
@miluo said:
@a_5mith @a_5mith thanks. now nothing works...
do me a favour -- assuming i am new to NodeBB, and today I want to install fresh and run the stable working version of NodeBB locally. what's the exact steps i should follow? thanks.Hmm, odd, assuming you're running Ubuntu, this: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os/ubuntu.html
If you're not running Ubuntu, you will find guides for other distros on the left hand side.
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@a_5mith Thank you for help. yes i am using ubuntu. I followed the exact steps.
this time everything looks good. i can login as admin, and header looks normal.
howvere when i go to ACP manage category -- i still got the same problem as before -- it's empty.... it should show those default 12 categories ,,,,,,,,
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@julian thanks for the hint- yes i resize it show up. but i still notice some issue - after i click one category from the category picker window, the chose category didn't show in the parent category field. after i refresh the page, it then show up. but not a big issue.
i have a suggestion --- instead of using a popup menu window for a list of all categories, maybe just use a auto-complete text box to allow user to type in the category name.... this will be much simple when we have many categories (i.e more than 30....).
Thanks.
I should backport that fix...