topic Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action in Alfresco Archive

RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

townxelliot — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:02:52 GMT

It's a bit tricky to comment on RC1, as the interface is broken for me. When I click on the "More…" link at the bottom of the Actions menu in the default space view, I get this Javascript error:Error: document.getElementById(menuId) has no propertiesSource File: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/script

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

jbaton — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:21:11 GMT

I have the same problem with firefox 1.0 on w2k.

I switched to IE ….

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

janiner — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:52:35 GMT

In Safari the More link works, but choosing the items listed in the "more" part of the menu sometimes takes multiple clicks. Sometimes I would be clicking on a link and the more menu would time out and disappear. I don't see how that is possible, but it happened to me several times.

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

kevinr — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:40:41 GMT

Hello,

Thanks for reporting the issue.

This is strange as we have been using the code document.getElementById(…) since early preview releases. I'm not sure yet why it isn't working for you. We have tested on IE and FireFox - i will check on some other OSes.

Can you try something for me? The script menu.js has been updated probably since the last release you installed. Can you try a CTRL+Refresh on the page to make sure the scripts get reloaded and cached versions are not used - either that or remove your temporary internet files and restart the browser.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

kevinr — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:29:00 GMT

Hi,

I have just tested RC1 on Linux + FireFox 1.0.4 and everything is fine here, i'll try out 1.0.6 to be sure.

Cheers,

Kevin

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

jbaton — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:18:47 GMT

Hi all,

I did a "hard-refresh" :lol: and then ….. about twenty clicks … but then, it works. Even, when navigating in other spaces.

on firefox 1.0.6 FR, RC 1 , w2k

Truth is I did had installed PR6 before RC1. Might come from here. A cache problem…

Weird indeed … not very user friendly, it would sound weird to read
"with firefox, click 20 times on the 'more' link" in my user's documentation.

Thanks for the tip

Jerome

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

kevinr — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:27:26 GMT

Yes we've tested it here now on a few different boxes and setups - it's definitely a "delete temporary internet files" problem

I think we will add a line to the README about that in case of future JavaScript file changes.

Cheers,

Kevin

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

janiner — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:47:31 GMT

Ok… I was going to post that I don't think cached Javascript is an issue for me because I've never installed or used a previous version of Alfresco, but I tried clearing my Firefox cache and it did seem to fix the problem. In addition, when I am in my "space" and choose something off the More action menu, then use the back arrow to go back, I am now getting a warning each time about the browser having to send POST data again, which I was not getting before.

So the question is, how did things get fubar'd in my browser? Could it be that something cached from some other site is causing this? It would be good to know, but I'm not sure how to figure it out.

I am still seeing poor menu behavior from Safari, because I can't figure out how to clear it's cache, so I can try to find out where I should look I can try to find out what it has in it's cache. Sugestions welcome.

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

townxelliot — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:34:21 GMT

Still getting this error, even after clearing the cache (both via the Firefox menus, and manually by deleting my ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache files). I am also unable to replicate the "20 clicks and it works" behaviour. I even ran Tomcat on a different port, so there was no possibility of cached files from previous Tomcat installations being called up: still the same problem persists (with identical error message).

Next step: try to install Firefox 1.0.7…

Re: RC1: can't open the 'More...' option in the Action

kevinr — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:44:58 GMT

I've made some simplifications to the JavaScript/DHTML used for the drop-down menus in Alfresco web-client. This should mean much better support in weaker browsers such as Safari. This will be available in the next nightlybuild/release.

Thanks,

Kevin