Garbled prefs page - Pref Wizard

[Steve Hooker]

on 10/10/03 3:12 pm, Aadjan van der Helm at A.vanderHelm at io.tudelft.nl
wrote:

> If we request the prefs page in any browser,
> the input fields are there but the rest of the text is garbled
Yes, seen this before. Have a look inn the membership table of the person
you're looking at. You'll see one of the values is a list.

In my case it was the name of the person.

Change it to a string, and delete the list stuff, and that particular person
will once again not have garbage in their prefs page.

How did this happen? In your case as you've showed me your wizard, I cannot
see a reason. So I suspect this occurred before you finalised to this
version of the wizard.

In my case I asked for new members to sign up and asked them their name
twice, so the name field in their membership table coerced the value into a
list containing two names. Looking through the prefs page resulted in some
weird nonsense, just like yours, because the list value contains quotes, and
curly braces.

Fix the membership tables for ALL members and all sites. Check ALL sign up
wizards and prefs wizards in ALL sites. And all will once more be well with
the world.

I'll send you my script privately. You'll need to edit some of it.





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Steve Hooker
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