Date: 2013-02-21 11:04
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

works here... just tested
      

Date: 2013-02-28 05:12
Posted By: Kristof Torfs (kristof.torfs)

I have to confirm this bug, but an important detail is that it only occurs when
editing pages, adding new pages works fine. This is probably what Robert tested.
      

Date: 2013-02-28 06:04
Posted By: Kristof Torfs (kristof.torfs)

Did some more research, inactive pages do appear in the parent dropdown, what
doesn't appear are inactive section headers (only when editing, not when adding
content).
      

Date: 2013-03-16 12:13
Posted By: Lapinos (lapinos03)

Today I made a fresh install to check again that bug.
Download again :
http://s3.amazonaws.com/cmsms/downloads/10470/cmsmadesimple-1.11.4-full.tar.gz
No extra modules installed.

Still the bug persists, whenever adding new content or editing a page. I have
put 2 new inactive pages and they do NOT appear in the parent dropdown.
      

Date: 2013-03-16 12:37
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

I just looked at an older 1.11.4 install... and a 1.11.5 install.  

Created a new section header... marked it as inactive.... saved it.
Edit another page, look at parent dropdown ... The section header is there....
cancel

Add a new page, look at the parent dropdown ... the section header is there....
cancel.

so I don't see a problem.
      

Date: 2013-03-16 19:08
Posted By: Lapinos (lapinos03)

Why are you talking about "section header" ? I'm talking about "content" pages
(the default type).

You have an old 1.11.4 installed. But did you install the current officiel
release ?

I tried to debug it step by step.
I have discovered that when the Content panel is rendered (with the table of
pages), a cache $_content_cache in file class.cms_content_cache.php is filled
with some id / hash /etc.. for all the pages, including inactive ones. I put
some breakpoints in that file where $_content_cache is in concern.

When the "Add new content" panel is rendered, $_content_cache is empty and gets
filled again but inactive pages are missing (have actually NULL values returned
by class.cms_content_cache.php->get_content($identifier)).

In the call stack, when stopping at the breakpoints, I can see that the process
goes through the MenuManager. It seems that $_content_cache is initialized by
MenuManager. (Then it may becomes logical that inactive pages are 'ignored' -
not stored in cache). Further, when
class.contentoperations.inc.php.ContentOperations->CreateHierarchyDropdown() is
called, it looks into $_content_cache (in some steps deeper) where values for
inactive pages are returned as NULL again by
class.cms_content_cache.php->get_content($identifier)).

Why is MenuManager processing here ? It has normally nothing to do with the "add
content" admin panel…

So I had the idea the edit the template (NCleanBlue - the default one) and
remove all the menu tags. And now, guess what ? The inactive pages appear in the
parent dropdown !!!

So for me there is a logical bug regarding the call of MenuManager... Or
$_content_cache should be cleaned somewhere after MenuManager, and before
CreateHierarchyDropdown().
      

Date: 2013-03-16 19:42
Posted By: Lapinos (lapinos03)

As a temporary workaround, I put a line to clear the cache before the
CreateHierarchyDropdown() is called. I don't know whether it is the correct
place (should not be dangerous). Now inactive pages do appear the Parent
dropdown list.

File class.ContentBase.php, Function display_single_element($one,$adding)
			case 'parent':
				{
					$contentops = $gCms->GetContentOperations();
					/*PGU 2013-03-16*/$contentops->ClearCache();
$tmp = $contentops->CreateHierarchyDropdown($this->mId, $this->mParentId,
'parent_id', 0, 1, 0, 1,get_site_preference('listcontent_showtitle',true) );
					if( empty($tmp) && !check_permission(get_userid(),'Manage All Content') )
return array('','<input type="hidden" name="parent_id"
value="'.$this->mParentId.'" />');
if( !empty($tmp) ) return array('<label
for="parent_id">'.lang('parent').'</label>:',$tmp);
				}
				break;

      

Date: 2013-03-16 19:58
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

I have now tested this on a second 1.11.4 install, with no difficulties.
      

Date: 2013-03-16 21:13
Posted By: Lapinos (lapinos03)

Well, what can I say ?  As I mentioned earlier, I downloaded and installed the
latest release available on cmsmadesimple.org yesterday.
I installed it on my MAC. I did not change any settings in the Site admin panel.

So what's up ?

Below, my system info :

----------------------------------------------

Cms Version: [b]1.11.4[/b]

Installed Modules:

    CMSMailer: [b]5.2.1[/b]
    CMSPrinting: [b]1.0.3[/b]
    FileManager: [b]1.4.3[/b]
    MenuManager: [b]1.8.4[/b]
    MicroTiny: [b]1.2.5[/b]
    ModuleManager: [b]1.5.5[/b]
    News: [b]2.12.10[/b]
    Search: [b]1.7.7[/b]
    ThemeManager: [b]1.1.7[/b]


Config Information:

    php_memory_limit: [b][/b]
    process_whole_template: [b][/b]
    output_compression: [b][/b]
    max_upload_size: [b]10000000[/b]
    url_rewriting: [b]none[/b]
    page_extension: [b][/b]
    query_var: [b]page[/b]
    image_manipulation_prog: [b]GD[/b]
    auto_alias_content: [b]true[/b]
    locale: [b][/b]
    default_encoding: [b]utf-8[/b]
    admin_encoding: [b]utf-8[/b]
    set_names: [b]true[/b]


Php Information:

    phpversion: [b]5.3.20[/b]
    md5_function: [b]On[/b] (True)
    gd_version: [b]2[/b]
    tempnam_function: [b]On[/b] (True)
    magic_quotes_runtime: [b]Off[/b] (False)
    E_STRICT: [b]0[/b]
    E_DEPRECATED: [b]0[/b]
    memory_limit: [b]128M[/b]
    max_execution_time: [b]60[/b]
    output_buffering: [b]4096[/b]
    safe_mode: [b]Off[/b] (False)
    file_uploads: [b]On[/b] (True)
    post_max_size: [b]10M[/b]
    upload_max_filesize: [b]10M[/b]
    session_save_path: [b]/var/tmp[/b] (1777)
    session_use_cookies: [b]On[/b] (True)
    xml_function: [b]On[/b] (True)
    xmlreader_class: [b]On[/b] (True)


Server Information:

    Server Api: [b]apache2handler[/b]
    Server Db Type: [b]MySQL (mysqli)[/b]
    Server Db Version: [b]5.1.66[/b]
Server Db Grants: [b]Found a "GRANT ALL" statement that appears to be
suitable[/b]


----------------------------------------------

I just have installed it on a debian6 server. Exactly the same problem.

1. download from http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/downloads/
2. install (no problem)
3. In admin, go to Content >> Pages
4. Suppress all pages except first one (alias home)
5. Add New Content , content type: Content -> submit
6. uncheck 'active' for that page
7. Add New Content, dropdown Parent list : unactive page does not appear. ->
Cancel
8. check active
9. Add New Content, dropdown Parent list : all pages appear.

/Lapi