Relation Editor for an Entity shows up blank (last update)

wit

Hello Team!

First: Thank you for the April update, which completely eliminated the token bug. We suffered a lot from it.

After this update, we had to modify many configurations again. Everything, except one last thing, is found and fixed.

Problem: After the April update, our relation editor no longer displays any content.

Description: After establishing a relationship between an entity and an object, we use a relationship editor to define additional information for that relationship. We're reaching this editor window via the small clip symbol behind the name of the object/entity in the relationship screen (see first screenshot).

Concrete example: We have a film as an object and a human being as an entity. After establishing the relationship, we define which role the human being has in the film. For example, he is a director, actor or writer etc.

This editor window will only be displayed blank (see second screenshot) after the April update.

Have you any idea, where I can find the responsive setting?

Kind regards,
Chris

seth

We haven't seen any regressions like this in the systems we test with or support. My first guess would be to check the type restrictions on the editor configuration.

wit

Hello seth,

I'm pretty sure the cause is in the configuration files.

The relationship editors worked flawlessly until April for nearly a year (we've included every patch in the time). In the April patch, many customizations were overridden. While I managed to restore all the other stuff, I can not remember which was the related setting file and the configuration setting for relationship editors.

To rule out other causes:

1. overview
   

2. the related "hasagent" ui
   

3. the screen from the "hasagent" ui
   

Can you point me to the right configuration file?

Thank you in advance!

seth

When you save "overridden" what do you mean? Did you overwrite a configuration file?

wit

Yes, exactly.

wit

To be clear: No configuration "in" collective access (as admin in the web-ui) was overridden.

wit

Hi Team,

the update from April '19 wanted to override the following files:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
app/conf/app.conf
app/conf/browse.conf
app/conf/global.conf
app/conf/navigation.conf
app/plugins/prepopulate/conf/prepopulate.conf

I took a backup (in files (copy the folder) and container (copy the lxc machine). Then I compared the files and transferred or adapted the necessary changes for the functionality.

After I did this, the relationship editor ui is blank. This is a heavy problem :-/
Do you have any idea?

wit

Steps to reproduce from admin perspective

Administration > Relationship Types:
* Add zz_TestUI under object <-> entity relationships without any further settings

Administration > Metadata Elements:
* Add Container zz_TestUI_Container
* Bind attribute to: object <-> entity relationships and choose zz_TestUI
* check include subtypes
* Create subelement: zz_TestUI_Container_Sub as Datatype text without any further settings

Administration > User Interfaces:
*Create new UI _zz_TestUI_
* Type restrictions: _zz_TestUI_
* Is system UI?: Yes
* Screens: Basic with Element _zz_TestUI_Container_ from Object <-> entity relationship (no further settings)

and from User perspective:
* Then Ive created a new object and a new entity (personal)
* Ive linked them via relationships screen and have choosen the created zz_TestUI relation type
* Now I want to access the Relation Editor via the small paperclip symbol and the quick edit window is showing up (as an overlay)

Expected: There has to be my container with the textbox-element from above. But it is blank.

twa

i can confirm the issue
it worked fine with 1.7.6 but fails on 1.7.8 with the following error:

[Wed Oct 02 21:02:35.306145 2019] [:error] [pid 2738] [client 10.10.201.10:49996] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getParameter() on null in /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/ResultContext.php:617\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/BaseInterstitialController.php(127): ResultContext->getParameter('ca_objects_x_en...')\n#1 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/Controller/RequestDispatcher.php(273): BaseInterstitialController->Form(NULL)\n#2 /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/Controller/AppController.php(113): RequestDispatcher->dispatch(Array)\n#3 /var/www/html/providence/index.php(120): AppController->dispatch(true)\n#4 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/html/providence/app/lib/ResultContext.php on line 617, referer: http://XXXXXXXXXXX/providence/index.php/editor/entities/EntityEditor/Save/Screen49/entity_id/1

twa

some additional details:
:/var/www/html/providence# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"
:/var/www/html/providence# dpkg -l mysql-server
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========================================================================-=========================================-=========================================-========================================================================================================================================================
ii mysql-server 5.7.27-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 all MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
:/var/www/html/providence# dpkg -l apache2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========================================================================-=========================================-=========================================-========================================================================================================================================================
ii apache2 2.4.18-2ubuntu3.13 amd64 Apache HTTP Server
:/var/www/html/providence# dpkg -l php7.0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========================================================================-=========================================-=========================================-========================================================================================================================================================
ii php7.0 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.6 all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

seth

Try using the code in the Github develop branch in https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence/tree/develop. This issue should be resolved in that branch.

wit

Hi @seth,

we followed your suggestion and implemented the develop-branch https://github.com/collectiveaccess/providence/tree/develop (1.7.8-develop) and we can confirm that the issue is resolved. Thanks!

Kind regards. :-)