[CMS] Create new CMS content. Sections not listed.

[Larry Callahan]

VB 4.0.7

When you visit my home CMS page on the far right side near the top you see a drop down box that allows me to create an article, PHP something and a static page.

So, click on create then article. Then on the right side 3/4 the way down is a section box where I "think" I should be able to pick the section I want to create the article in.

I have a news section, events section, member of the month, car of the month and so on. My problem is the only section that shows in that box is my Welcome to the site section.

I don't think it was that way when I originally installed the board becuase I remember picking a section before and I have content in other sections. Now I want to add something to a new product section and for the life of me I can't find a way to do it.

Help!

[Lynne]

Are the other sections all viewable to you - can you navigate to them? Are they published?

[Larry Callahan]

Yep, published and viewable. I can even open them and edit them. Check it out at www,pro-touring.com

[Lynne]

Try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if you still have this problem.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit includes/config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 

Do you have all default vbulletin files - you haven't modified any?

And have you tried this when using a totally default style set for that section - Create a new style with no parent:

• Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Add New Style
• Parent Style: No Parent Style
• Title: Default vBulletin
• Allow User Selection: Yes
• Save

[socceronly]

Try looking in a different browser.

I don't know why, I can clear the CMS cache, clear FF cache, refresh ect.. and it still won't change sometimes. I think it has something to do with the alignment of the planets.

Then I open chrome or IE and there it is.

[Larry Callahan]

Thanks for the advice.

I did the disable hooks in the config.php file but that also disabled the CMS. So, I removed the diable hooks and I disabled all the plugins and it didn't change.
I created a new style as above. Didn't change.
I tried a different browser. Didn't change.

I haven't modified any of the original vbulletin files that I can think of. I'm not saying 100% that I didn't but I don't think I did.

Still scratching my head and unable to post a product release for a big advertiser.

[Lynne]

Put in a support ticket and be sure to include login information to your admincp in the Sensitive Data textarea so we can take a look.

[Larry Callahan]

Thanks for the help. For anyone interested it was my fault. I didn't set up the permissions in each section. I guess I assumed the permissions would be used by all.

Thanks again!

[Edwin Brown]

Thanks for the help. For anyone interested it was my fault. I didn't set up the permissions in each section. I guess I assumed the permissions would be used by all.

Thanks again!

If that's the case something is seriously wrong on your system. You should NOT, repeat NOT have to assign permissions at every section. The default case is that you assign permission at the top only and they cascade down. For anyone reading this- if you think you have this problem:
1) Verify that all the sections are published. An unpublished section will hide itself and all subsections under it from user groups that don't have create or publish permissions.
2) Run a "verify and repair node table". A corrupted node table can cause this problem.
3) If it isn't fixed, submit a support request with an admin login and access so we can run database queries.

[Larry Callahan]

Can someone log in using the original support ticket I started last night for this issue? I have run the "verify and repair node table" and it's still the same.

[Lynne]

Edwin, the problem was he had set permissions for all the sections but hadn't granted the correct permissions for the admin in each section. Larry, I think you just didn't realize that you didn't have to specifically set permissions for each section but could instead just set the permissions for the top section and let all the other 'bottom' sections inherit the permissions. You may just to to edit the permissions for one of the 'bottom' sections and click Remove Permissions. Make sure that the 'bottom' section is listed at the top where it says "Permissions assigned for section"....

[Larry Callahan]

Thanks. I clicked the "remove permissions" button and the locks turned from gold to grey. I even killed everything in the top one and started over.

For some reason I still can't get the permissions to copy to all the others. I'm sure I'm just missing some step.

[Lynne]

Larry, I just logged in to your site, click Article > Go and I had a list of all your sections now available to pick. Are you not seeing that also? It could have been a cache thing and maybe all you had to do was Clear CMS Cache. But it's probably OK now. Let me know in the ticket if you are still having problems.

[Larry Callahan]

I replied to the ticket. Thanks again.

[Edwin Brown]

Edwin, the problem was he had set permissions for all the sections but hadn't granted the correct permissions for the admin in each section. Larry, I think you just didn't realize that you didn't have to specifically set permissions for each section but could instead just set the permissions for the top section and let all the other 'bottom' sections inherit the permissions. You may just to to edit the permissions for one of the 'bottom' sections and click Remove Permissions. Make sure that the 'bottom' section is listed at the top where it says "Permissions assigned for section"....

Thanks. I just read the prior post and started hyperventilating. I have seen one or two customers think they had to assign permissions everywhere. It's a lot of wasted work and doesn't solve anything, and I didn't want people to find this thread and think they had to go assign permissions to each of their 143 sections.