[solved] Deactivating one page destroyed another one, reactivating impossible

[iseleeds]

Hi, I need some help with the CMS Made Simple 1.6.1 "Canala", running on Windows XP. This being said: I'm a total noob concerning CMS.

About two month ago I got a job in a small-sized company. I shared the bureau with a workmate, who amongst other things was in charge of the company’s homepage. She worked with CMSMS and showed me a how to upload and include data files. One month ago, she resigned the job and a few days later my boss asked me if I knew how to work with CMSMS. “A bit”, I answered, and since then, I receive orders and orders for uploading and including several files. (Everything went fine.)

Last week my boss told me to delete a page, so I deactivatet the page in CMSMS (there was a green checkmark, now there is a red cross or “X”). As the result, the homepage doesn’t show the superordinate page either! Instead of that, a page shows up which seems to be the unformatted home page. The background is white, the writing blue and underlined (links to other homepage-pages) or black, and there are some curious letters like “ä“  in it. The formatting is like a list or something.
At the very end of the text, there’s this sentence:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/www/ncf767/html/bsh-natur/bsh-cms/plugins/function.cms_selflink.php on line 85

The homepage was like:

A ->…
B ->…
C ->…
D ->…
E -> E.1, E.2, E.3 (-> E.3.1 (-> E.3.1.1., E.3.1.2., …), E.3.2), …
F ->…
…

I deactivatet E.3.1.2., and since then, the page E.3.1 doesn’t show any of it’s underordinate pages.

Now it’s like:
E -> E.1, E.2, E.3 (-> E.3.1 -> The weird unformatted page with several links to A, B, …), E.3.2), …

(I made some screenshots – If you need them, please tell me.)


My boss went furious and I tried to reactivate the page that I deactivated, in case to solve the problem – but it doesn’t work. The red cross doesn’t change into the green checkmark no matter what I try, and I don’t know why. @_@  


Does anybody know what to do in this situation? And would you please explain, which mistake I made?


Thank you so much for reading this and eventually helping me. q_q

[jmcgin51]

1. 1.6.1 is not supported, so you should be upgrading to latest and greatest as soon as possible.  (I know this doesn't help you in your current situation.)

2.  Do you have a link to the problem page?  Can you still open the page in the admin panel?

[Dr.CSS]

I would have moved it outside of that group of pages then deactivated it as it may be getting called in some link that is screwing everything, make sure it's not getting called in any links other than the menu before doing this...

[iseleeds]

1. 1.6.1 is not supported, so you should be upgrading to latest and greatest as soon as possible.  (I know this doesn't help you in your current situation.)

2.  Do you have a link to the problem page?  Can you still open the page in the admin panel?

Thank you for helping me.

1. Okay, I'll try to upgrade when the problem is solved. Thank you.

2. Yes, here's the link. Klick on "Berichte"
http://www.bsh-natur.de/index.php?page=berichte

[iseleeds]

I would have moved it outside of that group of pages then deactivated it as it may be getting called in some link that is screwing everything, make sure it's not getting called in any links other than the menu before doing this...

Okay. I'll have a look at the other pages. Thank you. :O

[iseleeds]

I would have moved it outside of that group of pages then deactivated it as it may be getting called in some link that is screwing everything, make sure it's not getting called in any links other than the menu before doing this...

Okay. I'll have a look at the other pages. Thank you. :O

Oh, thank you very much! I found a link to that deactevated page, deleted it, and the problem is solved! :DDDDD Thank you!