Elon Report

... and now the error is gone. Since I have not done anything to make these errors appear/disappear, could it be related to a scheduled task?

OK, I spoke too soon. Logging into to admin just now, I see the following at the top: I know from experience if I do anything at this point, the forum breaks. I will wait for you to do it. 🙂

I have spent two weeks experimenting with restoring the database and file system. I decided it's best to cut my losses - I restored from a very old backup where the problem does not exist. So now I have a new issue... I restored from June 11, and the forum is up, but all apps are reporting as up to date; no updates available. I'd like to have a stable install I can back up before I start making more changes. Marc, could you remote in and verify everything is OK?

My incredibly customized forum: https://sava.one Why does it look so vanilla? Because I created a new theme, and once I switched to it, my forum broke. I've been trying to fix it myself for a couple weeks now, and cannot figure it out. I have a backup of the old database and files. I've tried to reinstall but switching to the backup database always breaks it. What should my next step be?

@Marc Stridgen He didn't actually want to edit the page, but because he was in the Administrators group, it opened when he visited the page. Shouldn't the default be set to not edit the blocks when visiting? I'm going to see now if there is any automated backup in this incredible software...

Had a page that took a couple hours to perfect. I tried to move a block, got the error above, and lost all data in that block! Is there a way to get it back? Edit: Would this happen if two administrators had the block open in edit mode?

I decided what I am going to do. Parser will GET to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id} pulling all records in the table, not locked(reserved) for another parser. Parser will figure out which record it wants to work on. Parser will GET to https://my.url/api/cms/records//{database_id}/{record_id} to see if the record is still unlocked. Parser will POST to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id}/{record_id} locking the record. This will prevent it from being offered to others. There may be a chance another parser locks the record between step 3/4, but I can code to minimize that. There would be no more than a few parsers running and the tasks can take many minutes.

How can I do anything with an API other than GET or POST? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I can't allow the system to give out the same record twice.

This was not a feature I was aware of either - webhooks. 🙂 But no, that won't work for me. There is a set number of records and I just edit the values in the records. When I say "lock", I mean the record will not be offered to another parser. I need to re-word I guess. I think I have a solution. Parser will GET to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id} pulling all records in the table, not locked(reserved) for another parser. Parser will figure out which record it wants to work on. Parser will POST to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id}/{record_id} locking the record. This will prevent it from being offered to others. My question is: Will the POST return an error if I try to lock it and it is already locked? If it just locks the record a second time, that obviously won't work for me.

I use the term custom table because that's what I see in the database. But it is created by the Pages application; it has all the standard columns in addition to the ones I need. GO OILERS!

I believe this will work: A GET to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id} pulling a single record sorted by your system. A POST to https://my.url/api/cms/records/{database_id}/{record_id} to lock that record. When completed, a second POST to unlock record and update the record for next sort/get. Is there a way I can POST the lock at the same time I GET the record information?

I'm trying to move away from accessing the custom databases directly since I discovered APIs. I find the API useful for creating a new record, but I need help with the terminology for what I need to do or use for the following scenario. I have a custom table that hosts a schedule. I'd like to be able to request a task from that schedule. Using API I would send off request for all records, calculate the task myself, then send an API back to the schedule to lock it so it's not given again. There may be several parsers accessing this table, so I don't want the same two tasks sent out. Is there a way I can move the process from my parser to the forum? Send off one API that calculates and locks the record, returning the task?

Awesome! I feel like I did when I discovered BASIC in 1983! 🙂 So much potential! Thanks, Stuart.

I've been fighting with this for the last two days. I haven't POSTED since the early 2000s and I'm sure the solution is obvious, so I'm asking for help. I'm trying to post a record to a custom database. My URI is https://my.site/api/cms/records/10 The documentation states "Field values. Keys should be the field ID, and the value should be the value. For fields of the Upload type, the type of the value must also be an object itself, with each key set as the filename and the value set as the raw file contents" For the field key, I've tried the field number ("22"), the field name ("Parse Time") and the template key ("titlefield_10"). I always get the error above. 😕 I'm using POSTMAN, if that helps anyone explain what I need to do. Thank you, Martin

Thought I would update in case anyone found this thread via a similar problem. Under System, Site Features I discovered the API, which will allow me to add records to the database without accessing it directly. 💫

I create a custom database and the needed columns from the interface. I do not modify the table or column definitions - just read and write records. The log itself is the data for the table. Learning a lot... thanks.

Not sure what you mean. I created the database and fields with the interface. I have a log file I want to show on my forum. My code writes the log files to the database directly. I will look into other methods to import the data directly then. Thank you.

I am inserting one column into a custom database, leaving all other columns to default. They are in the database, but they are not showing in my page with the database attached. I'm sure there are some columns I need to change. Thanks! Martin

How can I make the gift card purchase use the shopping cart? I deal in crypto, and sending $2 of bitcoin (annual membership fee) costs more than the coin itself. For this reason, I wanted to add the ability for one user to purchase gift cards for another. However, when I go to purchase the gift card, it wants to check out right away, and ignores anything else in the cart. If you could "fix" it so that it uses the commerce shopping cart, then the other requests for coupons or price discounts or multiple gift cards would be a lot easier to implement. As of right now, I have no solution to allow one member to purchase for many and consolidate the mining fees / gas. Any suggestions (via PM) would be really appreciated.

That will help when the background finally shows, so thank you. The background is 1000+ pixels long so it is not showing fully in the green line. I can't find the CSS for where the green line stops to remove the white so we can see the background.

I have purchased three themes and still can't figure out how to repeat an image (vertically) as a background. See the image below. The green bar is what I achieved by adding the follow to my custom.css I would like is to extend the image down the entire page as shown in the red bar. The white horizontal rectangle in the image (Work at Home...) should remain the same color. I am very new at CSS, but hope to contribute to the forum with pages and database knowledge. 🙂

Sorry about this. I had no idea what time zone you were in, and I only had today alloted for this. Thanks for the awesome fast support!

I'm not complaining about your support - I've been buying your add ons for NINE years! So what do I change? Remove the URL? Set Allow New Registrations to what?

My site keeps looping and times out. (Redirected too many times) DawPi is trying to help, but the responses are very slow, and I want to get this up by new years. Here are my screenshots: Daw's reply was "The Registration URL is wrong" but no additional information. I'm hoping someone here can quickly tell me what settings to change (and to what) so I don't have wait a half day between communication. (Yes, I know it's the holiday season so I am not placing blame - just asking for help). Martin