[solved] Preview does not show sidebar (and other problems)

[peon2t]

Hello everyone.

I've got some problems with my CMSMS  :-\


First: I'm using a Template with two columns for the content (CSSMenu top + 2 columns). But the Preview (when editing content) does only show the content of the main column while the sidebar is always shown as empty.
Personally it wouldn't bother me, but the main content editor of this project says, that she can't work without a proper preview.

Any idea how to get this working? The sidebar is shown perfectly in the real website, just in the preview it's always empty...



Second: When editing a page, I'd like to have TinyMCE enabled by default. Actually I have configured it so that it should be enabled by default (using the 'Startup enabled' option in the tinyMCE configuration page) but this doesn't work (this means that TinyMCE is always disabled at the beginning, even if the configuration says the opposite). It's no drama since it can be activated manually using the 'enable/disable WYSIWYG' checkbox but I'd like to have it working properly anyway.
Interesting thing: If the 'Startup enabled'  option is activated, the 'Enable/disable WYSIWYG' checkbox is enabled too, even though in fact WYSIWYG is NOT activated at this point. So unchecking this checkbox has then actually the function of enabling WYSIWYG (while it should do the contrary of course).

Maybe I can get some help for this issue too, even it it isn't that important...



Thrid: This one is a bit more irritating again. It concerns again TinyMCE. When editing a page with a lot of content, the content of course exceeds (vertically) the TinyMCE editor-box. Usually there should of course appear a vertical scrollbar then, but unfortunately this does not happen. So the editor can't edit the whole content since the parts closer to the bottom are exceeding the size of the box and therefore invisible and one can't scroll down since the scrollbar is missing.
Strangely enough this only shows up on the computer of the main editor of the page. For me it works correctly (= I got the scrollbar).



By the way: I'm running a 'standard' Apache/2.2.11 server with PHP 5.2.10 and MySQL 5.0.81


I'm really thankful for any help that you can provide me!

[RonnyK]

Concerning Tiny, is "Startup enabled:" ticked on the "advanced tab"?

That tick should drive the starting-state..

Ronny

For the template-preview call, could you show the template and an image of the preview.

Ronny

[peon2t]

Hello RonnyK, Thanks for your answer!

-> Tiny: Yes it is. The problem is, that it makes no difference, whether it's ticked or not. Tiny is always disabled at startup.

-> Preview: Here a snippet of a screenshot I took from the preview in the backend: http://www.strategyplayer.net/images/of ... idebar.jpg - as you can see, the sidebar (= more or less the space below the search form)  is empty while it actually should be filled with content. The template is attached as Textfile to this posting.

[RonnyK]

Could you post this issue on the MLE board, as I see that you are using that...

MLE is not supported, please check if this is happening on default set as well...

Ronny

[peon2t]

Hello

I set up a completely new (second) installation of CMSMS and there the problems don't show up. Then I installed MLE to this new installation and the problems still don't show up. So it seems, that something else in my old page is broken but MLE has not anything to do with it.

So I have two possibilities now and for both I ask for your help.

1. I try to fix my old installation (problems: see first posting, solutions: I don't have any idea, that would be your quest )

2. I try to transfer the whole content and settings of my old installation to the new installation. But for this I need some information because I can't imagine how to do it... but I fear it's a huge load of work...

[alby]

I set up a completely new (second) installation of CMSMS and there the problems don't show up. Then I installed MLE to this new installation and the problems still don't show up. So it seems, that something else in my old page is broken but MLE has not anything to do with it.

In my testing I have not problem in preview of "CSSMenu top + 2 columns" page
Maybe you use an old version of MLE in first installation, before 1.6.X version preview not display other content blocks

Alby

[peon2t]

Problem solved by Upgrading.