Recent changes to bugs

Upload Errors create empty document entries

Jens-Peter Kaps — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:50:15 -0000

When a document is uploaded and the upload fails, the entry in the document_tbl is created but without document type and no data is entered in the docdata_tbl. This leads to emty entries.

editor field missing for entries of type "book"

Gunnar Gaubatz — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:57:23 -0000

In the DocDB entry mask for documents of type "book" the "author" field
is marked as required, however, the "editor" field is missing. According to
the BibTeX manual the requirement is either "author" or "editor".

Not sure how to capture the OR condition in the entry mask, but it
shouldn't be too difficult.

Document deletion does not remove notes

Jens-Peter Kaps — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:28:24 -0000

When a document gets deleted, notes that were written
for it remain in the notes_tbl. They cause wired
results when searching for a document by the notes
field and suddenly notes for not existing documents
are found. Therefore, these notes entries have to be
removed.

Verified in version 1.2 with mysql and postgres.

chapter field to small for inbook

Jens-Peter Kaps — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:37:02 -0000

The entry:
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1364356&forum_id=357670

describes how an inbook chapter should be entered. However,
the chapter field is too small to enter a full chapter title.

Chapter and/or book fields have to be filled, however docdb has
both as mandatory. Entering a blank space is sufficent.

The chapter entry length has to be fixed though.

Explicit postgres calls in bibtex.php

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:17:32 -0000

File bibtex.php contains two explicit calls to postgres
functions, namely "pg_fetch_array" and "pg_numrows",
which give error when underlying db is MySQL.
They should be changed into "dbgetarray" and
"dbnumrows" respectively

Notes are to small

Jens-Peter Kaps — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:00:59 -0000

A user can add a note to a document. However these notes can only
be 255 characters long. A longer field would be nice as it would then
be possible to really comment on a document.

Error in the script 'install.sh' for 'htpasswd'

Gus — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:53:19 -0000

For systems which does not have 'htpasswd2' but have
'htpasswd', the script does not work. The problem is
that the part of the script looking for the htpasswd*
is erroneous (at least it does not work on a Mandrake 10.1)

At begining of 'Part 6':

if [ ! -f $passwd ] || [ $validpasswd = 0 ]; then
webaccess=`which htpasswd2`;
if [ ! -f $webaccess ]; then
webaccess=`which htpasswd`;
if [ ! -f $webaccess ]; then
echo "Error, [...]"
exit 1
fi
fi
echo " Please enter [...]"
`htpasswd2 -c $passwd $docdbadmin`

should be replaced by:

if [ ! -f $passwd ] || [ $validpasswd = 0 ]; then
webaccess=`which htpasswd2`;
if [ "$webaccess" = "" ] || [ ! -f $webaccess ];
then ## modified
webaccess=`which htpasswd`;
if [ "$webaccess" = "" ] || [ ! -f $webaccess ]; then
## modified
echo "Error, [...]"
exit 1
fi
fi
echo " Please enter [...]"
`$webaccess -c $passwd $docdbadmin` ## modified

fatal error clicking bibtex link on reference

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:29:52 -0000

Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
pg_fetch_array() in /home/docdb/html/bibtex.php on line 80

This error occurs when clicking the bibtex link on a
bibliography entry.

from: Joan Smith
jsmit@cs.odu.edu

Thanks: I look forward to using this with my PhD research.

BibTEX emulation: Missing space between some fields

Gunnar Gaubatz — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:54:29 -0000

The BibTeX emulation code does not insert spaces
between the fields Title and Booktitle, and between
"In" and the editors field. This seems to only be the
case for documents of type "inproceedings".

Furthermore, the expansion of the editors field inserts
a comma seperation before the last editor in addition
to the word "and", i.e."editor1, editor2, and editor3".
It should be only "editor1, editor2 and editor3".

Gunnar

I know I am picky ;)

Notes: Space between radio buttons and delete button

Gunnar Gaubatz — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:32:25 -0000

On the notes.php page the vertical space between the
delete button and the bottom entry radio button is
awfully small, so that a user might accidentally hit
the delete button.

While by default no radio button is selected, this does
not give enough safety to prevent accidental deletions.
Also, there is no confirmation request before the
deletion of a note is performed.

Simple solution: Add more verticals space between the
radio buttons and the delete button (cosmetic change).

Better solution: Add page asking for confirmation for
the delete request.

Gunnar