Postgres-problems with OJS Betaversion 2.4.1.0

[cramby]

We installed this version on a testmachine for testing the URN-plugin.
The good news: the plugin is working very well and does what it´s supposed to do without any problems.

I know this is a betaversion but we had some problems with Postgres ver 9.1.2, during installation and with uploading articles.
Maybe the betaversion hasn´t been tested with Postgres yet but here are our problems:

During installation:
there´s a column: file_stage that contains the text "temp" but the this column should be numerical, according to Postgres.
review_assignment and review_round_id has value "null" but should not be null, according to Postgres.

Article upload:
when submitting an article we get a: DB Error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""
I think we´ve had these problems before with Postgres handling empty values different from MySQL.

Also, maybe this is under development still, but:
the PDF-viewer window shows only a very small portion of the PDF in Safari, Explorer and nothing at all in Firefox.

Regards

Gösta Cramby

[asmecher]

Hi Gösta,

there´s a column: file_stage that contains the text "temp" but the this column should be numerical, according to Postgres.

The "temp" value is temporarily assigned to the filename, original file name, and file type columns during file creation, but I'm not sure how it could make its way into the file_stage column. Could you describe what you do to cause this error, and post a stack trace (generated with the show_stacktrace option turned on in config.inc.php)?

review_assignment and review_round_id has value "null" but should not be null, according to Postgres.

Likewise, could you post a stack trace?

when submitting an article we get a: DB Error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""

Likewise, could you post a stack trace?

Also, maybe this is under development still, but:
the PDF-viewer window shows only a very small portion of the PDF in Safari, Explorer and nothing at all in Firefox.

Could you post a screenshot? I'm not sure whether this is intended behavior or not, judging by the description.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[marchitelli]

Hi Alec,
I have the same problem with the pdfObject visualization in Firefox:

This is an OJS 2.4.1

Andrea

[cramby]

Hi Alex
I am sorry, we had to go back to the previous version and now we don´t have the time to do the installation process again.
So, I will come back with the stack traces in the beginning of next year.

As for the problem with the PDF-view - it looks exactly as the post from marchitelli.

All the best

Gösta

[asmecher]

Hi Andrea and Gösta,

Could either of you send me credentials for a login that allows me to view an article with the PDF embedding issue? Andrea, looking for example at http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aristonothos/article/view/569/761, the embed seems to work on my Firefox. Is it only certain articles?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[marchitelli]

Hi Alec,
I just emailed you an access to that journal.
Andrea

[davidp]

Hi,

Any progress with the issue of the tiny PDF viewer window? We're using version 2.3.8.0. at http://lthe.zu.ac.ae . Is there any way we could edit the existing version to enlarge the PDF viewer window? Or do we need to upgrade?

Thanks,
David

[asmecher]

Hi David,

I suspect you've got some CSS customizations that are causing the problem. For example, styles/articleView.css in your installation doesn't appear to be the file from OJS 2.3.8.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team