Error when updating database fields: "403 forbidden"

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:48:04 -0700

I'm getting the following error message when attempting to click "Save" in the window for modifying fields in the section editor:

There was an error sending the request! (403 forbidden)

The problem has appeared recently for me and is independent of CMS Builder version (just updated to 2.64 on one website, but problem persists).

Searching the forums here, this hasn't been mentioned since 2012: http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2216094#post2216094. I've tried adding hyphens to links (as described in that thread), but the pages load normally with e.g. "/index.php?-s".

Presumably this is due to a server security setting?

Moving to a new server

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:54:41 -0700

Hi

I'm ready to move a license of AM2 to a new server. I'm not using a MySQL database. Is it just a matter of uploading all the files and folders from the old server to the new one? Because the various folder paths won't match, could I just edit these in the /data/settings.dat.cgi before uploading to the new server?

Also, while in the process of moving, it would be preferable to have the site live on the old server until it is ready on the new server. Is this OK?

Harald

Search engine not working

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:22:58 -0700

Hi

Last week I've been having problems with the search engine and article previews not working giving the error message
Error: Unknown host '[hostname].': Unknown error at [root path]/artman2/modules//IT/SSIResolver.pm line 358.
I contacted the server admin and they have only been working on the firewall lately. It's a Windows server.

Any ideas on what could be causing the problem? (BTW, why is there a double slash in the path to the .pm-file in the error message?)

Re: [Jake] Including dynamic searches

Thu, 15 May 2008 01:49:53 -0700

It works!

Thanks Jake

Including dynamic searches

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:25:50 -0700

I tried including a dynamic search using the following:

When the search query is used as a full URL it works fine, but obviously it needs to be included within a page. When using the include above, AM instead outputs the contents of search.pl itself (!?)

Any ideas?

Harald

Re: [4blacksheep] feature article on homepage

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:31:44 -0700

Ah, I remember having had the same problem.

When a checkbox field is created later on in the process, the values for that field for articles having already been created is blank in the database. Articles created after will either get the value "0" or "1" when saved (depending on unchecked or checked). If you re-save all articles created before creating the new field, then their field value will no longer be blank.

The problem with the sorting arises because AM seems to list articles with blank values first no matter whether "Reverse order" is selected or not (though it seems to be limited to checkboxes).

What I did was was to use a listbox instead of a checkbox, where the "list" contains only one choice corresponding to a selected checkbox (it is given the value 1 in the field editor). This seems to avoid the problems with sorting based on checkbox fields.

(If you test this I recommend you create a new field and not convert the old one to a listbox)

Harald

Re: [4blacksheep] feature article on homepage

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:18:35 -0700

Hi

Did you select "Reverse order" when sorting by homeFeatured?

Harald

Re: [Perth] Hiding Fields from Writers

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:44:05 -0700

Oh yeah, there needs to be an extra column in the table for the label; try this instead:


 

 



 
$_fieldLabel$

Harald

Re: [Perth] Hiding Fields from Writers

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:05:42 -0700

Oh, sorry, I just wasn't thinking [blush]

The code you need is as follows:


hiddentext" name="$_fieldName:htmlEncoded$" id="$_fieldName:htmlEncoded$" value="$_fieldValue:htmlEncoded$" />

The reason being of course that the input needs to be type="text" only when $currentuser.accessLevel$ equals "9".

Harald

Re: [Perchpole] $category.globalOrder$

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:43:26 -0700

Hi AJ

Ahh, I see what you're saying. This would be useful on my pages as well. Unfortunately I can't see any good way around the problem using just conditional comments in AM. The thing is that when AM is generating the content within each articleRow-templatecell, it has no idea what category the $articleList$ is going to be placed in.

However, there might be a way to do this with CSS:
1) On the category page itself add a class that includes the placeholder, such as "category$category.num$ (may as well use $category.num$), for example

2) Add this code in the articleRow-templatecell where the "Posted in: ..." goes


Posted in: $category.name$

3) The following CSS would be category-specific and have to be included with each category in the head tag:

This will hide the entry "Posted in: ..." only when the article is posted in the category that is currently being viewed.

I haven't tried this method, but it seems like it should work.

Harald

Re: [Perth] Hiding Fields from Writers

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:52:08 -0700

Hi

Try changing type="hidden" to type="text" or changing the code to



$_fieldValue$

depending on whether you want it to be a simple text field or a text box.

Harald

Re: [Perchpole] Parent and Child Category Relationships

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:39:56 -0700

Hi

The file structure (subfolders etc) has no effect on the values of the placeholders (such as $category.depth$), except (of course) those that output URLs. With the exception given, all other placeholder values are determined by how you structure the content within AM.

The values of $category.depth$ can be found simply by looking at the category structure when editing categories. Top level categories are depth 0, and so on.

Only displaying content on a page depending on the category depth should work the way you've outlined though. Maybe you could give some more details on what you're trying to achieve?

Harald

Re: [Perchpole] $category.globalOrder$

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:25:57 -0700

Hi

I'm pretty sure this unfortunately can't be done...

What are you planning on using it for? Even if it was possible, you would simply get the same value for every article in the list.

Harald

Re: [seGAP] Using Placeholder Modifers to Parent Category information

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:48:36 -0800

Hi

I just found this thread in my bookmarks (I figured I might need it some day) and found it VERY helpful, thanks a lot! I was using a tedious workaround to include the name of the parent category...

Harald

Re: [elbav] Displaying article number in edit articles view

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:04 -0800

Hi

The article number is visible in the address-bar in the browser (but you probably know that already) for articles that are being modified. This is not the case for articles that are being created. The number is assigned only upon saving the article, so there is really no way of showing the writer what the article number is/will be before the article has been saved the first time.

Showing that field (article.num) in the page content of the editor seems to require changing the admin-templates (specifically the file templates/admin/menus/article.html). The value of this field is on line 238 in the file (). Make a backup of your database and templates if you try to make any changes to the admin-templates, though.

Harald

Re: [Jake] Simplifying the Search Box hierarchy in ArtMan 2

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:54:30 -0700

Hi Jake

Thanks for the help, but unfortunately I'm not very good with javascript, so I can't really say for sure whether or not the branch layout is possible to achieve only with modifications to the templates. I doubt it though, since there is a reference in there to $_breadcrumbText:javascriptSafe$, and unless there's a similar placeholder like $_branchText:javascriptSafe$ I think there might have to be some modifications to the program itself to output the category names as branches.

If anyone following this thread achieves this with just editing of admin-templates I would appreciate if the necessary modifications are shared here.

Harald

Re: [Jake] Simplifying the Search Box hierarchy in ArtMan 2

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:03:46 -0700

Hi Jake

I meant the dropdown that has the list of the categories when creating/editing an article. By default the categories as listed as breadcrumbs (i.e. "Category1 : Subcategory1 : Subcategory2"), but if this becomes too long, it gets truncated (i.e. "... Subcategory2") and so the category structure is no longer obvious.

If the categories could be listed as branches (like the $category.optionlistForSearchEngineAsBranches$ does for the search templates) it would allow for more of the category structure to be displayed without truncating.

I realize there are some drawbacks with listing categories as branches (which is probably why the breadcrumb display is the default one), but I still think having the option to change this would be good.

Harald

Re: [Jake] Simplifying the Search Box hierarchy in ArtMan 2

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:38:40 -0700

Hi

Is there a way to do the same for the admin-templates? The category structure would be a lot easier to see if there was. If not, maybe this option could be added in a future version?

Harald

Re: [Donna] templateif and $category.lineage$

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:18:14 -0700

Hi Donna

I was just wondering if you could take a look at the issue I mentioned in post #8 (and again by Neil in his last post), so that maybe it could be fixed in a future version. Basically, the problem is that when "include articles from subcategories" is selected, AM publishes parents of selected categories even though these are not selected in that publish-rule. This is very confusing and can overlap with published files from other rules.

While it is a good idea to avoid too many different templates, it will in some cases, as you say, be necessary in order to keep the number of template-ifs down to a manageable level. And the issue I just mentioned will, as in Neil's case, force you to use just one template.

Harald

Re: [outofthehat] templateif and $category.lineage$

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:06:56 -0700

Hi Neil

Thanks for the input. I realize the method you mention for applying different CSS styles would work. I guess the point I was trying to make is that it shouldn't be necessary to manually add information about parent categories when that information is already in the database. IMO there should be some set of commands that allows this information to be extracted with a simple template-if.

As for using different templates for different sections, I completely agree, it does get complicated, especially with category menus (I've done a lot of head scratching over category menu templates). Therefore I'm interested in any progress you make with the method you outlined in post #5.

Harald

Re: [outofthehat] templateif and $category.lineage$

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:50:53 -0700

Hi Neil

I recently ran into this issue myself. The problem seems to me to be related to the option "include articles from subcategories" for a publish rule. When this option is selected, and some non-top-level category is selected for this rule, Article Manager insists on using that same rule to publish files for all the parents of this category, even though these parents are not selected. At least for me, this issue vanishes when not using "include articles from subcategories". But in general, of course, this is an unreasonable constraint, and I suspect there is some bug at work here.

I also think that what you mentioned initially in this thread about checking with a template-if for whether a category has a given parent would be very useful indeed. It would eliminate the need to manually add parent-category information into subcategories in order to apply different styles to different category branches (which in most cases is a rather daunting task, and partly defeats the purpose of having a category structure). For starters, something like would be great.

Harald

Re: [Neilw] Images Not Showing in Some Articles in Edit

Fri, 11 May 2007 04:55:30 -0700

Hi

I had the same problem, but I discovered it has to do with encoding of foreign characters in the caption-field for the images. Apparently the upgrade-script for AM1.41-AM2 doesn't go through the image-captions.

When AM then tries to display the list of images for an article it can't because it doesn't understand the encoding (or something like that). The images should appear however in an article where there are no foreign characters in the captions (they did for me anyway).

I fixed it by doing search&replace in the data-file for the articles (data/db_article.dat); searching for the old/incorrect encoding and replacing with the new/correct one.

For example:
The Norwegian letter "quot; was encoded "%F8" in AM 1.41-captions but it has to be "%C3%B8" to be Unicode/AM2-compatible. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references for a list of character entities.

Hope this helps

Harald

Re: [ChetW] Problem with Database editor after upgrade to 2.10

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:30:18 -0700

Hi Chet

I figured out what the problem was: My FTP-program must have had some sort of glitch while uploading the "modules"-folder, because it all worked after re-uploading that...

Anyway, you've all done a great job on the new version!

Harald

Problem with Database editor after upgrade to 2.10

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:10:58 -0800

Hi

After upgrading to version 2.10 I'm getting the following error message when clicking "modify" in the Database Editor for all fields that are not separators:

"Error: Couldn't find element: stored_as"

Any ideas on what might be causing the problem?

Harald

Re: [Theo] templateCells

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:15:53 -0800

Is it possible to have the same templateCell twice in the same template if there is "opposite" templateIf's around them? For example, is it possible to have this code in the same category index template:


	
	ARTICLE ROW CODE
	




	
	ARTICLE ROW CODE