Slash

On Feb 22, 2005, at 6:50 AM, Leoncini Xavier wrote:

> Hello,
> so I thought I had it, and managed to upgrade to the last r tag.
> [...]
> Everything seemed fine, so I upgraded my "production" site,
> and decide to tell the world about the upgrade,
> I click on new tpe my text, do not understand anything form the 
> mainpage
> sectional thingie, but try to click on thos things but nothing happen, 
> so I
> check my text click on preview nothing happens, and click on save 
> nothing
> either.

When you edit a story, you see an interface that lets you pick the 
topics associated with that story.
It has arrows like this:

^
-
+
V

The top/bottom move selections up/down. - removes a selection. + spawns 
a pop-up window that will let you choose topics.

see

http://www.lottadot.com/blob.pl?id=6fbc2db02aa435c9b366d06670914874


Now, the question becomes, how is your topics and sections setup?

see

http://slash.lottadot.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/03/1250230

and possibly

http://slash.lottadot.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/05/1610253

Assuming you installed the optional perl modules and whatnot, slashd 
should be running the topic_tree_draw task for you that would generate

http://nycircus.com/images/topic_tree.png

it'd be along the lines of this:

http://slashdot.org/images/topic_tree.png

That diagram will show you each topic's relationship to the other 
topics.

If it's not, then you'd do best to post the contents of the following 
tables somewhere so we can see what's going on:

skins
| topic_nexus               |
| topic_nexus_dirty         |
| topic_nexus_extras        |
| topic_parents

So what web browser are you using when you're trying to create a story?
Maybe it doesn't work with the topics-popup? Try another.

I've used Safari and Mozilla under OSX just fine with it. I think at 
work I've used ie6 with it too w/o any problems.

If you are unable to add a topic to a story, and you try to save the 
story, I don't know whether it will save or not. But it will 
*definitely* not display itself - it needs atleast one topic 
association.


> I checked my apache errlog I have somehting like
> cannot getSkin for empty skid  from Mysql.pm

That's no biggie for the most part. When things are working OK you'll 
see that in your logs.
It's just leftever debug code.

> for the rest I am stuck.
> So if you have a quick fix for me being able to submit and edit 
> stories,
> please be my guest.
> Thanks in advance,
> Xavier

Hope that helps.

Shane


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On Feb 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> I thought that the Blob stuff supported ALIGN commands. So, you can 
> have it aligned left, center, etc. Works ok for me. It's not perfect, 
> but is anything perfect in Slash?

Now that I didn't know. So it sent me on a doc finding spree, and guess 
what I found in /docs? slashtags.pod!

<sigh>

Here's a snippet...

        IMAGE

        This tag does not enclose text.  Available attributes:

        ID [REQUIRED]

            The ID of the file in the database, provided in the "Attached
            Files" slashbox.

        TITLE [OPTIONAL]
            The enclosed text is used if not supplied.  TITLE value is 
also
            used for the ALT attributed.

        ALIGN [OPTIONAL]
            Alignment of image (e.g., top, middle, bottom, left, right).

        WIDTH [OPTIONAL]
            Width of image (e.g., 200).  Automatically added if left 
empty.

        HEIGHT [OPTIONAL]
            Height of image (e.g., 200).  Automatically added if left 
empty.

        TYPE [OPTIONAL]
            "image", if hyphenated form not used.

        The SLASH-IMAGE tag is almost the same as the SLASH-FILE tag, 
but with
        additional attributes, and uses an IMG SRC output instead of an 
A HREF
        output.

                <SLASH-IMAGE ID="SOMEID" TITLE="foo" WIDTH="200" 
HEIGHT="200">

        This is processed into something like:

                <IMG SRC="//slash.example.com/blob.pl?id=SOMEID" 
TITLE="foo"
                WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200">


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