Revolution ghost resource

On one install, I have an extra resource at the top of the tree with no name and a resource ID of (). I’m sure it happened back when I was battle testing the UI trying to create things with no name and such. I expected to find it in the DB but there’s nothing in the site_content table but the legit resources. I can’t delete it because MODx thinks it’s the site_start page (which is really the resource below it in the tree). It’s been there through many upgrade installs.

It doesn’t seem to hurt anything, but I’d like to get rid of it. Any ideas appreciated.

Bump . . . . Anybody?

Have you tried clearing your site cache? The () mean it has no id from the db as you’ve spotted, also what happens if you change the site start page in system settings to another id than the one your using and then try and delete it.

Quote from: shamblett at Jul 19, 2009, 08:22 AM

Have you tried clearing your site cache? The () mean it has no id from the db as you’ve spotted, also what happens if you change the site start page in system settings to another id than the one your using and then try and delete it.

Thanks. I’m afraid I’ve cleared the cache (and browser cache/cookies) many times with no effect. I’ve been afraid to try your second suggestion for fear that my real site start page would be deleted.

I tried duplicating the real site start page, setting site_start to the dupe, then deleting the () one. That deleted the real original start page and left the ghost resource in the tree. I guess that means the bogus one definitely points to the original site start page, but without sharing its ID. I can’t figure out why the code that draws the tree thinks there’s a resource with no ID, no title, and no entry in the site_content table.

Quote from: BobRay at Jul 19, 2009, 11:48 PM

I tried duplicating the real site start page, setting site_start to the dupe, then deleting the () one. That deleted the real original start page and left the ghost resource in the tree. I guess that means the bogus one definitely points to the original site start page, but without sharing its ID. I can’t figure out why the code that draws the tree thinks there’s a resource with no ID, no title, and no entry in the site_content table.

Is there a resource in your site_content table with no ID, or with an ID of 0?

Is there a resource in your site_content table with no ID, or with an ID of 0?

First thing I checked. All have IDs > 0 and there are no duplicate IDs.

Far down the tree, I had a resource with the same name as the resource with ID=1.

Are duplicate Resource pagetitles supposed to be allowed? They’re still creatable.

Duplicate Resource pagetitles should definitely be allowed. The only thing that shouldn’t be is URL aliases at the same level/depth in a site tree, but only if you have FURLs on and are not using paths (or are moving a document to the sam level).

Quote from: rthrash at Aug 12, 2009, 01:04 PM

Duplicate Resource pagetitles should definitely be allowed. The only thing that shouldn’t be is URL aliases at the same level/depth in a site tree, but only if you have FURLs on and are not using paths (or are moving a document to the sam level).

I think that means there’s a bug in the Revo code that draws the tree. I’m pretty sure the duplicate resource was in a sub-section of the tree with a different URL alias.

I’ll see if I can reproduce the effect.