[ic] Item_edit problem with a moved catalog

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Mon Aug 12 13:56:00 2002


Quoting Alexander J. McKenna (alex@alexmckenna.com):
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Over the weekend i moved interchange to a new server, was 4.8.1, now is 
> 4.8.5, Mysql database, everything seems to be working except one thing:
> 
> The Item_edit page on the old server had no upload buttons for the image 
> and thumb, (and no thumb field at all). I Hoped that installint 4.8.5 
> would fix that, but no.
> 
> I created a test catalog on the new server, based on foundation, with 
> the tools data, and the item_edit page there has both fields, item and 
> thumb, and Browse buttons to the right, just what i am trying to get.
> 
> Then I created a catalog with the same name on the new server, tested it 
> and it worked. Then i used mysqlfront, a marvelous piece of windows 
> freeware to transfer the mysql database, and tarred the web directory 
> and /catalog dir, ftp'd them to the new server, untarred and moved into 
> the correct places. Edited the interchange.cfg to point to the location 
> of the catalog files. restarted interchange.
> 
> Catalog comes up fine, all the items, orders, prices, etc are there. But 
> the Item_edit is the same old one! No Thumb box, no browse buttons.
> 
> Clearly i brought this over with me when i moved something, but i cannot 
> figure out what i need to do to fix it.

Just edit mv_metadata.asc and replace the lines for products::image and
products::thumb from the ones in

    INTERCHANGE_DIR/foundation/products/mv_metadata.asc

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