Bug in native import/export plugin

[Marc]

Hi people,

I’m using the import/export plugin to import articles and issues in my OJS (2.0.1)
I’ve a journal with a lot of issues, more than 30…
So, the template (./plugins/importexport/native/articleContext.tpl) don’t show all issues, but generate a first page with some issues and a link to the others pages (with the rest of issues).
I mean links like « 1 2 > >> », to navigate to first, second, next and last pages.

The bug appears here. When I try to go to the second page, an error message is showed:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /Projectes/RACO/ojs-2.0.1/plugins/importexport/native/NativeImportExportPlugin.inc.php on line 132

I’ve see into the file that the problem is that $temporaryFile is empty because $existingFileId = Request::getUserVar('temporaryFileId'))) is null. Apparently, there is nothing in $_POST.

I'm wrong?
There is a version without with bug?

Thanks a lot

Marc

[asmecher]

Hi Marc,

Thanks, this is indeed a bug. See http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2067 for information and a patch against 2.1.0-1 that will correct the problem.

Note that URL handling was overhauled between OJS 2.0.2-1 and OJS 2.1.0-1, so this patch won't work against older versions of OJS; I'd strongly suggest upgrading, but if you'd rather not, you can do one of the following:

• Changing the form in plugins/importexport/native/articleContext.tpl from "post" to "submit" may correct the problem (this is untested)
• You can work around the problem by increasing the number of items per page in paged lists; see the bottom of Journal Setup, step 5.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team