Sorting by clicking on headers in journal not working

Yesterday morning was the first time I noticed this problem. While viewing entries within a category, if I click a link in the header to sort by that column, I get a "404 - not found" browser page. Specifically, this:

Error 404: File Not Found

The requested URL /tools/journal/%3Cbr%20/%3E?catsort=name3&cat=106554 was not found on this server, but let's make lemonade out of these lemons! This 404 resulted in your finding Dave's Garden, the most friendly and helpful gardening website online!

If I'm viewing all items in my journal, the sort by header doesn't work, but I don't get the 404 page.

On a more positive note- when I scrolled down the error page, I found a link to a "Landscaping Design and Photos" page, under "Guides & Information". The link worked and the section looked interesting. If I click on the guides & information header, though, the landscaping section isn't shown. Was this removed? I guess the Garden Showcase section makes it pretty much obsolete.

Thanks again! Yes, the Landscaping Design was replaced by the Garden Showcase and you've found an obsolete link. I'll let them know.

Update to my original post. Maybe this could provide a clue to the sorting problem?

Sorting by clicking on one of the headers works when viewing my journal "by status".
"Access All Items" - sorting doesn't work, but no 404 error.
Within a specific category, trying to sort gives the "Error 404: File Not Found" page.

I'm so sorry, I didn't get to your original and very important question!

Right now, we're having technical issues in many of the areas of DG and the Journals have some bugs that they technical team is going to have to address.
Bear with us for a bit. They are working on them.

I found the cause of the error for trying to sort by header within a specific category. Something is causing html code to be inserted into the url in place of "viewbycat,php" - and, hmmm, I couldn't post the url without splitting it as the html was stripped when I previewed the message:

http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/ - append next line
%3Cbr%20/%3E?catsort=name5&cat=106554

When I edited the url to this, it worked fine:

http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/viewbycat.php?catsort=name5&cat=106554

I realize this isn't the most important issue right now, so don't worry- I *am* being patient :-)

I'll pass this along.
Thanks!

Sweet! The sort is now working in individual categories. Still now working in "Access All Items", but I rarely use that anyhow.

Thanks to the DG programming team!

Yes, they've been working hard behind the scenes. There's still some clean-up to do, but we're headed in the right direction!


If you would, make me a list of everything that is still wonky so we'll be sure not to miss anything.

Thanks melody! Here's what I've noticed, with what little debugging I've managed to do and a couple of screenshots. And, I should have known better than to copy/paste html directly. I had to strip out the tags to get it to display.

I tried to help trace the problems, but it's hard when I can only see the resultant html, not the php code behind it :-) I mostly used Chrome browser's "Inspect Element" function to get some clues.

Sort when "View All Items" is selected doesn't work
Inspect element shows this for a column header, not much help:
http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/viewall.php?sort=name5

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"Categories" problem in "Mass Edit"

About a week ago I decided to delete an old journal. I now have only one journal, besides the built-in default one. When I move an item to another category using the "Move" link next to the item, I see the list of categories in my current "Default" journal. If I select multiple items and select the "Change Category" button, however, the list of categories includes all of the now non-existent categories from the journal I deleted. This is not good! If I accidentally select one of the categories from the deleted journal, my item is lost, "in limbo" somewhere (I created a test item and tried it.) How do I remove the old categories? Trying to do so through the "Manage Categories" link only shows me the categories in my current journal.

IE: when I deleted my old journal, the categories within it were not deleted. My journal home page shows 133 categories, though I have 112 in my current journal and none in the "Default Journal"

I couldn't really find anything trying to debug this. Attached screenshot shows some of the now non-existent categories (Perennials and it's sub-categories.)

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"Add new item" under a category, item ends up having no category.
I created a new category "DG Test" and looked at the "Add new item" element:

form method="post" action="massaction.php"
This category has no entries yet. href="newitem.php?cat=107232" Click here to add a new item.

baseURI: "http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/viewbycat.php?cat=107232"
href: "http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/newitem.php?cat=107232"

I add a new item:
Common Name "Add New Item Test"
initial comment "test of adding a new item"
Status "Info"

Submit button, inspect element:
input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"

console shows an error- not sure if relevant:
"Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://t0.gstatic.com/favicon?q=tbn:ANd9GcR61lWk54yrHwy8JfJG7lpLt4q88wrl3yMXjlgUgl5NJGizfGhKBET15H_ir35hPTKi7JdK-yX3PAF4jp1-kM1izcdD0pO5stw"

baseURI: "http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/newitem.php?cat=107232"

input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="1"
input type="hidden" name="cat" value=""

Maybe the last line above? Somehow, the cat number isn't being passed to the function to create the new item.

The new item is here:
http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/viewentry.php?rid=377688

I can locate it by status "Info" or by searching my journal for the word "test", but it has no category. Attached screenshot shows the new item with empty "Category".

Oh- one other thing. I'm not sure whether this is even a problem, or whether it's normal. When I look at entries in "External view", I see only one photo for an entry even when I uploaded 2 or 3 for it. When I view the same entry as "me", rather than external, I see all the photos.

That, I don't know. I've sent your report over to the tech folks and I know they will be interested in anything you find. Just post it here.

Well, I'm sure they're working on it, but the most critical problem right now seems to be that users can't move to another journal from the one that's their current default. I only have one journal, so it doesn't affect me.

Yes, we're aware of that bug as several members are currently stuck in their default journals.