CS 2008.5 Manage Articles Bug

Intrepreneurs posted on Mon, Nov 17 2008 4:55 PM

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I found a bug in CS 2008.5 (At least I think it is) regarding articles. In the control panel, you have the options to View or Edit articles. If you click to Edit an article, in the edit article page, there is a button at the bottom labeled "Clear". If you click this button, it will delete the article, but instead of returning you to the manage articles page, it will return you to the home page (main site).

I think the button should be labeled "Delete" and return you to the "Manage Articles" page. And there should be a "Delete" button from the "Manage Articles" page.

This is very confusing. 

I think CS is trying to return you to the main articles page, but maybe there's something missing. I found the following exception just after attempting to delete a few articles:

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.
Path: /community/controlpanel/tools/ManageArticles.aspx as HTTP GET
Referrer: /community/content/NewArticle.aspx
Message: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: relativeUrl
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: relativeUrl
at System.Web.UI.Control.ResolveUrl(String relativeUrl)
at CommunityServer.ControlPanel.Controls.Hyperlink.OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Adapters.ControlAdapter.OnPreRender(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

I would deduce from this that its missing the required parameter needed to return to a specific URL once it has deleted the article.