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

[townxelliot]

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 properties
Source File: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/scripts/menu.js
Line: 21‍‍‍

I've had a look, and it seems to be that the browse:spaceMenu_0 menu is not being discovered correctly by

document.getElementById(…)‍

. Probably something to do with HTML block model?

I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 on Linux.

[jbaton]

I have the same problem with firefox 1.0 on w2k.

I switched to IE ….

[janiner]

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.

[kevinr]

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

[kevinr]

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

[jbaton]

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

[kevinr]

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

[janiner]

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.

[townxelliot]

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…

[kevinr]

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