[ic] New Items errors...

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Paul Stearns (pauls@compuace.com):
> I am having 2 problems, potentially related.
> 
> Problem 1.
> 
> When I am in the admin interface, the merchandising section, when I click on the
> last column Promotion) and the row contains "none" I get an Internal Server error,
> and the error log contains;
> 
> =============
> 205.152.31.241 c7VwiW26:205.152.31.241 - [20/November/2000:00:28:54 -0500] flcit
> rus /cgi-bin/flcitrus/admin/item_feature Safe: There is no row with index '55W'
> at /usr/lib/interchange/lib/Vend/Table/Common.pm line 255.
> >
> >
> >       my $db = $Db{merchandising};
> >       my $date = $Tag->convert_date({ raw => 1 });
> >       my $code = $CGI->{item_id} or return;
> >       return unless $db->field($code, 'timed_promotion');
> >       return if $date le $db->field($code, 'finish_date');
> >       $db->set_field($code, 'featured', 'expired');
> >       return;
> >
> >
> 205.152.31.241 c7VwiW26:205.152.31.241 - [20/November/2000:00:28:54 -0500] flcit
> rus /cgi-bin/flcitrus/admin/item_feature Runtime error: Can't call method "open_
> table" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/interchange/lib/Vend/Data.pm line 789.
> 

I can duplicate this on DBM databases, which I assume you are using (this info
is nice to have when posting, by the way). It will be looked at.

> ==============
> 
> If the promotions column contains a value other than "none", it seems to work
> fine.
> 
> I searched the archives looking for this issue & couldn't find it. Any ideas?
> 
> Problem 2.
> 
> When I click on "New Items" in the user interface (the store, not the admin), it
> returns no items and logs the following error;
> 
> ==============
> 205.152.31.241 c7VwiW26:205.152.31.241 - [20/November/2000:00:51:24 -0500] flcit
> rus /cgi-bin/flcitrus/scan/fi=merchandisingsf=featuredse=new.html search error:
> Search strings must be at least 1 characters.
> > You had no search string specified.
> ==============
>

That is just a bad search definition, possibly caused by uploading a 
new area file. Cannot duplicate.

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