By user901 on

Hello everyone,

Since last 2 days I am having a strange problem on my production site, I am unable to add a new story. There are no errors on the page, no javascript errors in browser, no watchdog logs and no errors in the database. I am not sure what to do next.

Details:
I have a production and a test site running on Drupal 5.5 on a shared Linux host with godaddy. The story content type on my site is renamed to article, there are no other changes to it. I also have 2 more content types, Contact and News, built with CCK. I was able to add/update nodes (content) to all the content types till 2 days back.

However since last 2 days when I try to add (or preview) a new story the body of the story is highlighted in red , similar to when a required field is left empty, but the story is not saved. I can still update existing stories. All other content types work fine.

There are no error message on the page or in the logs(wactchdog). I have tried the following things:
# logout and log back in,
# tried different browser,
# tried to save content in different modes[filtered html, php, full html],
# tried to add a story as a different user,
# change the admin theme to Blue Marine
but the issue still remains.

I am not sure what I should be doing next to resolve this. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction as to what/where I should start looking.

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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level02 commented

This is strange... So the content just isn't saving? Did you hit the 'submit' button after preview? What happens after that? More info would help. Does this happen only when you edit a node or when you create one as well? Is it published? Did you do anything 2 days ago that might have caused this?

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user901 commented

Hello,

Thanks for the response, sorry the original post was not clear.

I can update old stories the problem is only when I try to add new stories.

When I enter a new story and hit preview, or save, the form submits and the body of the story is highlighted in red denoting [the same effect that you see when a required field is left empty] an error. But there is no error message displayed anywhere.

I have not made any changes in the last three weeks.

Thanks.

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user901 commented

So in a nutshell the problem is I can't save a new story because Drupal thinks the body is empty. And since body is a required field it hightlights it in red.

Please let me know if you need more details.
Thanks.
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Barry Ramage commented

Hello user901,
have followed this thread here from

http://drupal.org/node/213410

the issue I am having is loss of ability to save content due to missing preview / save options at the bottom of submit form. Further probing required!

Thanks,
Barry.

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user901 commented

Hello Barry,

In my case I see the Save/Preview buttons, but after I click them the body field is highlighted in red as if it was empty.

What are you doing to further probe the issue? Is there any debug module that can help us.

Also I have a suggestion for you, if possible try changing the theme of your site, to see if the Save/Preview buttons come back.

Regards.

Barry Ramage’s picture

Barry Ramage commented

still looking..
sorry, not had much time today to keep this thread going.
I am working on a testing environment , so many changes are taking place!

I have Two sites in migration from another CMS, so, in that respect, this is likely to be a different issue as you have made no recent changes to your site.

I need to isolate content and permission related modules within ubercart SVN, problems seemed ( though not certain) to arrive post update from previous SVN. only content items are affected, not system change save capabilities.

As for a debug system, my mind is moving towards phpmyadmin to check over database tables. This will give me a better understanding of the framework if nothing else!

I have no conclusions I'm afraid, because it being a test environment, I think a roll back to previous state using backups is the way to go for me, if when reinstalling, the same problem arises, I will be in a better position to post findings.

Regards.

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mikekelly commented

Hi Barry,
Sorry to revive this dead thread. I'm having the same issue after migrating a site - did you find a fix?
Thanks,
Mike

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spdeepak commented

Hi Mike,
I am also facingthe same problem now. I created a new content type, i was able to save first 2 nodes later when I add content to the field and save, it just displays an empty form.

spdeepak’s picture

spdeepak commented

Hi Mike,
I am also facingthe same problem now. I created a new content type, i was able to save first 2 nodes later when I add content to the field and save, it just displays an empty form.

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user901 commented

This was my mistake. The story node had a requirement of minimum 200 words for the body, and I was adding text with fewer words.

Thanks.
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