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  • DDAreaChooer fails with area and no subboards

    From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 09:13:16 2023
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589

    I deleted a couple of subboards earlier today. Now when I use my menu option "J" to jump to a new area, I'm told "There are no sub-boards in Sysop's Test Groups." and it goes back to the menu.

    It should probably silently ignore empty areas and not display them as not to cause issues changing to a new area.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 15:16:51 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3672

    When you say "as not to cause issues changing to a new area", what's the issue being caused by this?

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 18:34:15 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3673

    I deleted a couple of subboards earlier today. Now when I use my menu option "J" to jump to a new area, I'm told "There are no sub-boards in Sysop's Test Groups." and it goes back to the menu.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 18:39:45 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3674

    What exactly is the issue? This seems like a fairly good/normal behavior to me. If there are no sub-boards in a message group, I'd think it would be good to say so. So, I'm not sure I'm understanding what the issue is.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 18:44:52 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3675

    Also, when you say "goes back to the menu", do you mean the list of message groups, or do you mean your BBS menu?
    And I did see a JavaScript error when I tried this scenario - I have a fix for that, but I'm not sure that's the same as what you're describing.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:07:36 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3676

    OK, I just set one up, a group with no subgroups

    Log into my BBS
    go to N - network forums
    press J to jump to a new area.
    Try to change to Fidonet or fsxnet

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:22:18 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3677

    Ah, I see. It returns to the BBS menu (which is what I was asking earlier).

    It seems the issue is if there are no sub-boards in the user's current message group, returning to the BBS menu doesn't allow changing to another group. I can make a fix for that.

    On your BBS, it says I'm in the "Local" group and "Notices" sub-board.. I'm wondering why it seems to think there are no sub-boards.. I'll try to re-create the scenario on my BBS and make a fix.

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:26:09 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3678

    It doesn't matter which group you're in, if you use the "jump" option then it'll tell you whichever board has no subgroups and not let you change. Just create a new message area with no subgroups.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:35:38 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3679

    That's not the behavior I'm seeing on my BBS. I created a message group with no sub-boards, and it still allows listing sub-boards of other groups (such as Dove-Net), and it only shows the error for the empty one I created.

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  • From Eric Oulashin@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:36:54 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3680

    I just tried it on your BBS again and I'm not seeing that error now.. What changed?

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  • From Nigel Reed@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Jul 10 19:52:38 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/589#note_3681

    Try making the first one in the message areas list your empty group.

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