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Error when posting QA solutions

7-Aug-19 7:07

It's certainly possible. We're discussing that issue this afternoon.

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Chris Maunder

Richard Deeming25-Jul-19 2:46

Richard Deeming

25-Jul-19 2:46

When submitting a QA solution, I get:

Quote:
An unexpected error occurred while attempting to create your new entry. Please try again later.

When I reload the page, the solution has been posted.

(Firefox 68.0.1, ad-blocker disabled.)

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Richard MacCutchan25-Jul-19 3:51

Richard MacCutchan

25-Jul-19 3:51

Same thing happened once using Chrome today.

Chris Maunder25-Jul-19 7:25

25-Jul-19 7:25

Was that around midday your time? I can see there was a single database timeout that would have sent that error, but it seems the retry system kicked in without telling the error system not to bother complaining.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Richard Deeming25-Jul-19 10:38

Richard Deeming

25-Jul-19 10:38

It affected everything I posted today, covering roughly midday to 4PM.

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Patrice T25-Jul-19 12:09

Patrice T

25-Jul-19 12:09

Problem still there.
problem is there since a couple of days.

Patrice

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OriginalGriff25-Jul-19 18:50

25-Jul-19 18:50

I had it a couple of times as well, over a multi-hour period.

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Chris Maunder6-Aug-19 7:26

6-Aug-19 7:26

We've done some more work on this and so hopefully you see this less.

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Chris Maunder

OriginalGriff6-Aug-19 8:00

6-Aug-19 8:00

Thanks Chris!
I'll keep an eye on it for a few weeks and see if it has gone - I'll let you know either way.

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OriginalGriff6-Aug-19 22:33

6-Aug-19 22:33

Just had one: https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/5164119/Can-I-connect-variables-from-different-tables-in-m[^]
Post solution, "an error occured", open a new page on the same question and it's there.

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OriginalGriff10-Aug-19 1:27

10-Aug-19 1:27

And again: https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/5164386/How-to-close-form1-and-form2-and-show-form3-Vb-net[^]
Again: 2019-08-11 06:01 UTC: https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/5164408/How-to-modify-the-content-of-a-dynamically-created[^]
Again: 2019-08-11 16:14 UTC: XSD file source ssis 2010 - data at root level is invalid[^]

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modified 11-Aug-19 12:16pm.

OriginalGriff25-Jul-19 19:07

25-Jul-19 19:07

And again just now: https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/5163244/Bad-data-exception-in-decryption[^]
In addition, the paste for that link was pretty slow - ten seconds or so? Then did not give the QA subject line or create its own link, I had to create it manually with the "[^]" button.

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Matthew Dennis26-Jul-19 7:08

Matthew Dennis

26-Jul-19 7:08

Chris and I are looking at it.

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Article Editor Source Mode

Richard Deeming26-Jul-19 7:13

Richard Deeming

26-Jul-19 7:13

I posted one earlier today, and it went through perfectly. Perhaps someone fed the hamsters after midnight? Smile | :)

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#realJSOP21-Jul-19 23:43

21-Jul-19 23:43

I think it's severely broken.

When I submitted the article, all of the instances of <T> where changed to <t>, and then the code snippets that had that code in them contained several instances of its attempt to close the tag with </t>.

Also, the cursor was not correctly positioned while typing, appearing to be a character behind.

Article in question:

Generic DAL using ADO[^]

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phil.o21-Jul-19 23:57

phil.o

21-Jul-19 23:57

Is there a chance you forgot to escape brackets with < and > respectively? Usually this happens when one does not escape them: they are treated as tags, and tags are automatically closed to respect ML syntax.

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#realJSOP22-Jul-19 1:42

22-Jul-19 1:42

That's entirely possible. I'm gonna check it out at lunch and try to update it. That still doesn't explain the wierd cursor positioning

Chris Maunder22-Jul-19 3:35

22-Jul-19 3:35

Which browser are you using? Were you editing in WYSIWYG mode or in Source mode?

As to the T -> t, that would be a HTML encoding issue. The HTML sanitiser will, as part of it's work, convert HTML tags to lower case so if you're seeing that then I'm assuming you posted the article while editing in source mode and entered <T> instead of <T>.

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Chris Maunder

#realJSOP22-Jul-19 4:12

22-Jul-19 4:12

Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm assuming you posted the article while editing in source mode and entered <T> instead of <T>.

I think that was the issue for the T stuff.

My browser is FireFox on a Linux box.

I always edit in source mode. In actyuality, I create the article content offline, and paste it into the editor.

I'm gonna go back and make sure all my ducks are in a row, and edit the article.

Chris Maunder22-Jul-19 6:32

22-Jul-19 6:32

OK, sounds like the ACE editor is slowing you down on your system. Next to the "Source" button is an ACE button that allows you to disable the ACE colourising. This may speed things up for you.

cheers
Chris Maunder

#realJSOP22-Jul-19 6:43

22-Jul-19 6:43

Even when at rest, the cursor is in the wrong spot, but I'll go back and check.

#realJSOP3-Aug-19 1:32

3-Aug-19 1:32

Just to to keep you up to date, the source-mode editing is completely unusable because of the cursor problem. It doesn't seem to matter which article I edit.

I'm using Linux with the latest version of Firefox.

Chris Maunder6-Aug-19 5:12

6-Aug-19 5:12

Have you tried disabling the ACE editor?

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Chris Maunder

#realJSOP6-Aug-19 7:27