Can you include the nivoSlider.cshtml code in your post? And what version of Umbraco are you using?

You will find more detailled information in the message text of the inner exception when debugging it.

the cshtml code is : (I am on umbraco 4.11.3) thanks for any help

@*

NivoSlider for Umbraco - version 0.5 (04/10/2011)
Author: Andrés Valor
Released under the MIT licence: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

*@

@using umbraco.MacroEngines

<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js"></script>
@{
    var nodes = @Model.MediaById(@Parameter.nivoFolder);
   

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function() {
        $('#@nodes.Name').nivoSlider({
          effect:@{
            System.Text.StringBuilder effects = new System.Text.StringBuilder("'");
            foreach (dynamic img in nodes.Children)
            {
                if (img.nivoSliderEffect == String.Empty)
          {
              effects.Append("random,");
          }
          else
          {
                 effects.Append(img.nivoSliderEffect + ",");
          }
            }
            effects.Remove(effects.Length - 1,1);
            effects.Append("'");           
            @Html.Raw(effects.ToString());
          },         
          slices:@nodes.Children.Items.Count,
          boxCols:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoBoxCols) ? "8" : Parameter.nivoBoxCols),
          rowCols:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoRowCols) ? "4" : Parameter.nivoRowCols),
          animSpeed:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoAnimSpeed) ? "500" : @Parameter.nivoAnimSpeed),
          pauseTime:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoPauseTime) ? "3000": @Parameter.nivoPauseTime),
          startSlide:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoStartSlide) ? "0" : @Parameter.nivoStartSlide),                    
          directionNav:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoDirectionNav) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoDirectionNav=="1" ? "true" : "false")),
          directionNavHide:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoDirectionNavHide) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoDirectionNavHide=="1" ? "true" : "false")),
          controlNav:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoControlNav) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoControlNav=="1" ? "true" : "false")),                                       
          keyboardNav:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoKeyboardNav) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoKeyboardNav=="1" ? "true" : "false")),
          pauseOnHover:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoPauseOnHover) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoPauseOnHover=="1" ? "true" : "false")),
          manualAdvance:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoManualAdvance) ? "false" : (Parameter.nivoManualAdvance=="1" ? "true" : "false")),
          captionOpacity:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoCaptionOpacity) ? "0.8" : @Parameter.nivoCaptionOpacity),
          prevText:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoPrevText) ? @Html.Raw("'Prev'") : @Html.Raw(String.Concat("'", Parameter.nivoPrevText, "'"))),
          nextText:@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Parameter.nivoNextText) ? @Html.Raw("'Next'") : @Html.Raw(String.Concat("'", Parameter.nivoNextText, "'")))
        });
    });   
</script>
      
        <div id="@nodes.Name" class="nivoSlider">
       
            @foreach (dynamic img in nodes.Children)
            {
                if (img.NodeTypeAlias != "NivoSliderImage")
                {
                    continue;
                }
                               
                System.Text.StringBuilder htmlNode = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
               
                if (img.HasValue("nivoSliderUrl"))
                {
                    dynamic destNode = new DynamicNode(img.nivoSliderUrl);
                    htmlNode.Append("<a href=\""+destNode.NiceUrl+"\">");                   
                }
               
                htmlNode.Append("<img src=\""+img.umbracoFile+"\" alt=\""+img.Name+"\"");
               
                if (img.HasValue("nivoSliderCaption"))
                {
                    htmlNode.Append(" title=\"#"+img.Name+"\"");                                  
                }
               
                htmlNode.Append("/>");
               
                if (img.HasValue("nivoSliderUrl"))
                {
                    htmlNode.Append("</a>");
                }

                htmlNode.AppendLine();
                @Html.Raw(htmlNode.ToString());               
            }
                      
        </div>
       
    foreach (dynamic img in nodes.Children)
    {
        if (img.HasValue("nivoSliderCaption"))
        {
                <div id="@img.Name" class="nivo-html-caption">
                    @Html.Raw(img.nivoSliderCaption)
                </div>                         
        }
    }
}

Hi. Have you tried "?umbDebugShowTrace=yes" instead of just "umbDebug"?

Yes.. it shows nothing

What develoment environment do you use? Have you tried attaching directly with VS?

When debugging with VS you can access the inner exception where you get more information about the error.

Not using VS at the mo !!! is there no way to get the live environment to give more detailed error information. I have full access to the server!

Thanks for all replies by the way..

Are you able to save your macro without having Skip testing (ignore errors) checked or does it throw an error? I also agree that VS would give you more detailed information which would help us debug.

Can you try to reproduce the error in a test / dev environment?

It doesnt give any errors and I am able to save the macro !!!

It is a package not something I coded so its never seen VS at my end .. just wanna see error so I could fix the .cshtml file :-(

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/nivoslider-for-umbraco

Perhaps it is no more compatible / supported? Please try to contact the package owner.

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