CollectiveAccess Support Forum: Recent Posts

stevedoughton on "couldn't create directories - what files to copy?"

stevedoughton — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:19:38 +0000

I was unable to set write permissions on my web-accessible directory, if the permission is set to 777 the server generates a "500 Error" web page and wont run PHP scripts - this just the way my shared hosting is set up and is beyond my control. As a result none of the media directories were created - this I can easily fix, but at the end of the install the following was displayed: Creating instance directory in web root... not ok! (could not create web instance directory at '/public_html/archive'; check directory permissions and/or the application configuration file; you may need to create this directory by hand and copy the file into it manually) Copying files to instance directory in web root... skipped What is the instance directory called and what files should be copied to it? How do I recover from this partial install?

rpaesen on "specific sorting on id-numbers"

rpaesen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:52:59 +0000

Hi, we use id-numbers such as 'ap.0.0.1', 'eo.1990.2.456', 'ho.0.0.3', 'ho.0.0.10'. Every '.' in the id-number denotes another section with it's own meaning. Sorting is at this moment: 'ap.0.0.1', 'ho.0.0.3', 'ho.0.0.10', 'eo.1990.2.456' What we would like: 'ap.0.0.1', 'eo.1990.2.456', 'ho.0.0.3'., 'ho.0.0.10' More technical: every field [sorted on length, then alfabetically]. Is this possible with the 'MultiPartIDNumber' section on the trac-site, or is this not possible at all?

seth on "No default UI locale is available"

seth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:29:16 +0000

Can you upload a screen shot here?

engr on "No default UI locale is available"

engr — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:13:52 +0000

Yes, it is 0.6 and I see this message on the first(index) page, before login screen.

seth on "No default UI locale is available"

seth — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:37:22 +0000

This is in 0.6, correct? And you are trying to login? Where are you seeing the message?

engr on "No default UI locale is available"

engr — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:01:07 +0000

After install, i got this error. how to fix it. Thanks,

seth on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

seth — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:31:30 +0000

Yeah, you're right that it is about time for 0.55-2. I was hoping to just jump to 0.6 but the timing is a few weeks off :-) I am looking forward to soon not having to look at the 0.55 codebase again! We'll try to have a 0.55-2 release in about 10 days.

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:24:25 +0000

it is debugged, tested and found ok now :-) The fix is sent to your email-box. Maybe the time is coming for a 0.55-2 rollup? :-)

commandline.be on "HTML/CSS speedup"

commandline.be — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:39:15 +0000

Thanks, i'm moving to check-up on this soon. Indeed, i'd proposed using 0.6 as well.

seth on "HTML/CSS speedup"

seth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:35:26 +0000

No, I don't think anyone has ever bothered to go into CA-Access and rework the markup. (and tables aren't necessarily evil either.) That said, save your time and start working with the 0.6 code in SVN (for which we have already given you access). If you haven't updated in while, when you do you'll notice a new directory in the root of the install named 'pawtucket'. This is the successor to CA-Access for the 0.6 line. It (mostly) avoids tables and has lots of other nice features I'm sure you'll appreciate.

commandline.be on "HTML/CSS speedup"

commandline.be — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:01:30 +0000

I'm looking to rewrite the CA-access pages to include only HTML/CSS based rows and columns, not using the html-table-tag anymore. This because i've reworked a php-page before and this approach showed massive load-time improvements (x10 and more). Given there are 96 files containing tables i'd like to know if anyone considered changing this in the current stable version of CA ?

commandline.be on "Bischen CA-Access ( errors ? )"

commandline.be — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:26:03 +0000

Hello, I've just done a work-around for bischen for CA-Access (current stable) Removing the ".auth->..." part from ./web/viewers/inc/bischen_html.php made the help page load. Commenting line 132 in ./web/viewers/index.php made the viewer work Now i wonder if this is a matter of me messing up global.conf or not correctly setting/using setup.php or any other related configuration. Best Regards, Joris

seth on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

seth — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:59:18 +0000

Cool, thanks. I'll be out of town until then anyway (!)

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:12:18 +0000

An update: I've got it almost debugged (some cosmetic issues are still playing up), I'll send over a fix probably next tuesday after some more testing. So don't waste any time on this :-)

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:19:02 +0000

double-checked it, yes it is an objects report.

seth on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

seth — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:55 +0000

Are you sure it's an objects report?

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:44:54 +0000

Some additional info: I've also tried with a 'virgin' installation of 0.55-1 (no fixes whatsoever applied), if there are no attributes defined, the dropdown won't even show up on the screen. (see attached jpg - this is after clicking on the 'add report field' link) When I define attributes through the interface, only these show up in a dropdown. (see previous screenshot)

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:06:03 +0000

I included a screenshot of the 'sorting'-options I get. I get the same options for 'grouping', however for 'display' the list is as it should be. I've tried this with Firefox 3.0.11 and IE 8 (with latest updates). Any ideas on this?

seth on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

seth — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:22:13 +0000

It should show an objects.admin_idno option ("accession number") in the sort fields setup screen. Are you sure it's not there. We have users doing this all the time.

rpaesen on "CA 0.55-1 - how to sort reports on the 'Id number' of objects?"

rpaesen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:08:29 +0000

Hi, how do I sort a single report (or all of them) on the 'Id number' of objects in version 0.55-1? The interface only shows 'attributes' to sort on... Thanks for a reply! Roel

seth on "CA-Access no search response (latest stable version)"

seth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:46:15 +0000

Ah ok. You don't have the status values to your objects set to "publish". So CA-Access is doing the right thing. And you already discovered the symlink! Good night in Belgium :-) seth

commandline.be on "CA-Access no search response (latest stable version)"

commandline.be — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:34:02 +0000

this is dummy nigt ;-) Apparently as the above work-around makes things happen as they should the error is now the /media/image.file cannot be found. Symlinking the dir as in the install manual described fixed it. Working now. Thanks for the supportive response.

commandline.be on "CA-Access no search response (latest stable version)"

commandline.be — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:26:03 +0000

Hi, thanks for the swift response. The wildcard does not work for now, partial solution was in global.conf to disable ignor_object_status (set to 1 now ) , as this collection is still being imported. Now search's return results but do not get pictures displayed as expected. Did not yet realise what option to enable at this time.

seth on "Problems installing imagemagick extension"

seth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:10:24 +0000

Make sure that the dll you're using is compiled for the version of ImageMagick you have installed. What version are you using?

seth on "CA-Access no search response (latest stable version)"

seth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:09:19 +0000

Ok, so you're running 0.55 then? Try searching on * ... does that return anything?

seth on "uploading corresponding pictures in batch"

seth — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:08:06 +0000

This was a problem with your data, right? Not CA?

commandline.be on "CA-Access no search response (latest stable version)"

commandline.be — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:07:44 +0000

Chances i overlooked a installation setting are real, still ... the defined 'collection category' is loaded from the sql database. Entering a search query for a key known and working in CA does not return any object in CA-Access.

commandline.be on "uploading corresponding pictures in batch"

commandline.be — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:37:47 +0000

Given the filenames in the end did not match i used a more laboureous work-around, though i'll continue work on a version of this script for the 0.6 version.

Harlquinth on "Creating administrator login... failed! ( while creating login)"

Harlquinth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:14:33 +0000

Thanks for the replies in this thread - I had the same problem as well and turning off strict mode worked for me. In case anyone else needs it I used the instructions here: <a href="http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?t=5254" rel="nofollow">http://forum.mambo-foundation.org/showthread.php?t=5254</a> for turning off strict mode. Thanks, Peter.

Harlquinth on "Problems installing imagemagick extension"

Harlquinth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:19:16 +0000

Hi, I've been trying to setup CA 0.55 recently, however I've been having a really frustrating time getting the magicwand extension working that CA uses. I'm running Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.2.9-2 on Windows XP with service pack 3. I've followed the instructions at <a href="http://trac.collectiveaccess.org/wiki/InstallingImageMagickforPHPonWindows" rel="nofollow">http://trac.collectiveaccess.org/wiki/InstallingImageMagickforPHPonWindows</a> for installing imagemagick/magickwand, however whenever apache loads it has the following error in the error log about the magicwand extension (and another extension that I installed that CA uses): PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\Server\\PHP\\ext\\php_win32ps.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\\Server\\PHP\\ext\\php_magickwand_Q16_st.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application.\r\n in Unknown on line 0 Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing the errors? I've searched the internet without finding out much (other than that documentation for the magickwand extension is a bit sparse!). I've also checked phpinfo and it doesn't show up there (presumably since it can't load it), and imtest.php from octests.zip says 'MagicWand for PHP extension not installed correctly' as well. Thanks, Peter.

jimroma on "Creating administrator login... failed! ( while creating login)"

jimroma — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:00:46 +0000

That did the trick, Thank You very much jim

seth on "Import FileMaker data into CA help"

seth — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:28:19 +0000

Yep, we're already helping you, remember? :-)

engr on "Import FileMaker data into CA help"

engr — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:09:42 +0000

I have data in FileMaker Pro and want to import that data into Collective Access. How I map tables of FileMaker with CA tables and relations. Any expert can guide? Thanks,

seth on "Creating administrator login... failed! ( while creating login)"

seth — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:26:32 +0000

Ok... got it. Is your MySQL running in "strict" mode? If it is, turn off strict mode.

jimroma on "Creating administrator login... failed! ( while creating login)"

jimroma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:57:26 +0000

0.55 from the site and MySQL 5.1.35. I have this running on an XP machine.