Just a public service message.

The other thread was hijacked by fantasy and sci-fi. My apologies for playing a small role in its demise.

-Ron

How about Mark fixes the link for "Books" under "Topics" and we can rock and roll?

Man, you're a double doctor and I'm a double dunce when it comes to HTML. Remember who you're talking to.

I'll take a look at it. No promises. It may not be brain surgery, but I'm really, really far from being a brain surgeon so it may still be too tough.

Yup, those guys always take over. I usually jump out the second someone mentions Terry Brooks. On the other hand, I do have a soft spot for Zelazny's original Amber books.

"On the other hand, I do have a soft spot for Zelazny's original Amber books."

And here goes this one. Three posts, though. Not bad.

-Ron

The "Books" section should now be accessible again. I'm going to try to move the book threads from this section into the Books section, but I don't know when I'll figure that out.

The movies section I'm going to try to fix too, but the problem in that one's a bit different it looks like. It may take some head scratching.

Hmmm...something's screwy with this section still. I think that the "Last Day" and "New Messages" options will show and allow access to new messages posted here, but the "Book" section link from "Topics" is broken. I can fix it by editing the HTML link, but it looks like it gets broken again as soon as a message is posted.

Anyone have any ideas?

Another test.

Well, it broke again when I posted the test message. I guess this is why I write about games instead of programming them.

"Man, you're a double doctor and I'm a double dunce when it comes to HTML."

I'm apparently an even bigger dunce when it comes to reading since I didn't even notice until after I posted that message that it was actually IN the Books section. Sorry about that.

No, you're not a dunce. It was in the free for all section. I just moved all these messages to the book section.

It's confusing to me, and I was the one who did it. :)

"Anyone have any ideas?"

Mark, the top page seems to be broken somehow, but just on those two links. The movie topic seems to be suffering from the same sort of issue as the books topic.

If you look at the source for the page, the URL just gets repeated over and over again. The movie topic has the quartertothree domain repated so many times it's kind of funny, in a sick way. I suspsect a java script error, or something. Not like I know for sure or anything.

Can you just log on as superuser and delete those topics, then create them again? I'm looking at the instructions and the working demo and it seems sort of doable, in a complex way. :)

Alternatively discus has some sort of funtionality to recover corrupt pages, but I would only use that as a last resort because they talk about the pages going back to its original color scheme and topics appearing out of order. The after affects of that might be worse than not fixing. Heh.

Anyhow. Not sure if this is helpful, but I find working through stuff like this interesting. Post when you figure out the problem.

"If you look at the source for the page, the URL just gets repeated over and over again. The movie topic has the quartertothree domain repated so many times it's kind of funny, in a sick way. I suspsect a java script error, or something. Not like I know for sure or anything."

I know, and I go in and fix that, but as soon as a new post appears that repeated URL reappears. It's frustrating.

The movies thing doesn't have a URL. My problem is that I don't know what URL to put in there.

How these situations arised in the first place I have no idea.

"Can you just log on as superuser and delete those topics, then create them again? I'm looking at the instructions and the working demo and it seems sort of doable, in a complex way. :)"

I may try this, but it's something of a last resort.

One thing you can always do is hit the "Tree View" which will then display every topic and subtopic, and then you can access both movies and books and start new threads. However, this is not a satisfactory solution in my mind. So I'll keep trying.

Support board for discus here:

http://support.discusware.com/forum/

I've done a few searches on the board above, but haven't really come across anything like the problem on the Q23 topics page.

"I know, and I go in and fix that"

How are you accomplishing this fix? Are you editing the html directly? I ask because it looks as if you have to log on as superuser to edit any of the topics on the top level. If you're doing it by hand, you may have answered your other question (How these situations arised). ;)

I edit the HTML through Dreamweaver, which I suppose is like doing it by hand. I should do it through Discus, eh? Hmmm.

I did try it through Discus first, but I couldn't see how to do it. Admin is the same as superuser, isn't it?

"The movies thing doesn't have a URL. My problem is that I don't know what URL to put in there."

The URL for movies would be the last one in the list of repeated URLs from the source of the board-topics page.

Here it is:

http://www.quartertothree.com/boards/messages/273/273.shtml?SundayAugust2620010807pm

When I paste that into a browser, it shows me the topics for movies.

The problem on that page is that part of the URL gets repeated a gazzilion times.

This is the part that gets repeated: *http://www.quartertothree.com/boards/messages/

The same thing seems to be happening with the books link, only it hasn't been repeated as much.

Is the board-topics page a static page or is it generated by a script? If it's a script, the script must be created based on the options you select in the administrator GUI. Since it worked fine once, but is out of whack now, I think it may have just become corrupted and may need to be created again.

Mark, I think the time has come for you to gird up your loins and log on as superuser. ;)

Whatever you do, be careful if you're editing dynamically created pages manually.

"Mark, I think the time has come for you to gird up your loins and log on as superuser. ;)"

Careful there. The last time I girded my loins my wife had twins nine months later. When I get my mojo working, it works.

Ok, I'm going in. If you don't hear from me for 24 hours, send help. Or sandwiches.

"Admin is the same as superuser, isn't it?"

It depends. However it was setup when you first installed it. Here's a quick way to check: Log into the admin part of the board, and then see if you have an option called "Board Manager."

If you do, it means you've been added to the Superuser group, so you can do superuser tasks, which includ destroying topics and creating new topics. I would just go with creating a new topic. You can even name them books and movies, it doesn't seem to matter if you duplicate names.

If you're not a superuser, no problem. We'll just have to figure out another option.

Tim, I am a superuser and board manager, but for the life of me I don't see a way to edit that URL via Discus. Email me and I'll give you the password if you want to take a whack at it. Maybe I'm missing something obvious?

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