Hi all, I know that it may be difficult to debug a remote site, but I'd appreciate any idea that helps us to get our record editor working.
Thanks, Ferran At Wed, 30 Nov 2016 10:10:46 +0100, Ferran Jorba wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > I'm trying to debug a long standing misfeature in our of Invenio > sites. As I cannot go further alone, I kindly request your help > > A quick reminder. At UAB we have three Invenio sites, one of them > (http://ddd.uab.cat) was first installed ten years ago, and the > other ones (http://traces.uab.cat and http://ifmuc.uab.cat) are > newer, each of them a few years from the other. We have our own > Marc record editing module (basically, a simple textarea form, with > some local extras thrown in) and so, we haven't used Invenio record > editor. However, from time to time we need to explore record > history an so, we'd like to access it. It well for our newer sites > (Traces and IFMuC), but not for DDD. > > From time to time, specially after Invenio upgrades, I try to run it > with the hope that it magically works, but it doesn't. We have > upgraded to 1.1.6 this weekend and we are still in the same > situation. > > I've been comparing tables and Javascript libraries (they are > identical), and checked that command-line bibedit works well (I can > retrieve record history and I can compare record revisions). I have > also compared the HTML page produced for our installations and it is > basically the same, modulo site urls and name. I've found that the > difference stands here: > > @@ -130,23 +130,25 @@ > > Edit physical copies > > - Checking status... > + Ready > > Special symbols <#> Help <#> > -Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB :: Cerca > > When I go to the simplest URL screen, that is, with no record > (https://ddd.uab.cat/record/edit/), in the lower left part of the > screen there is this «Checking status...» message. The same screen > in any of our two sites (includig the sister test ones) show a > «Ready» message. The icons in the top left part of the screen («New > record», «Clone record» and «Manage templates») are also inactive > for DDD, but work perfectly for Traces and IFMuC. Record searching > doesn't work either, as it seems busy and locked due to this > «Checking status...» state. > > Looking at Python code (lib/python/invenio/bibedit_templates.py) > doesn't give me much help. And Javascript debugging is not one of > my skills. > > Ideas are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Ferran
