Books Starter Kit - Value cannot be null or empty (viewName)
I recently installed Umbraco 5 RC1 along with the default Books starter kit. The installation went fine and I was able to preview the site as well. However, when I went to the administration page ("dashboard"?) to edit the description of the content, I got the following server error:
Value cannot be null or empty. Parameter name: viewName
I think it has to do with the node in question not having a template assigned. I think they haven't implemented the 404 for "no template" nodes or decided what they will be doing for that case :)
Thanks for the quick followup! In this situation, do you think the cause is due to the starter kit or the CMS? Updating a page just seems like a common action that would be thoroughly tested and is fairly robust. So I'm leaning towards an error with the starter kit. Is there a simple way to rollback the starter kit? If I have time I'll probably install 4.7.1 and give it a go.
This is not related to the starter kit, but the CMS. The nodes don't have a template and that's what's causing the error. As Tom said it's probably something which hasn't been implemented yet. It's still a RC of course.
Since it's still an RC as pinted out above I think you should install v4.7 for now if you're looking for a stable version. But be aware that 4.7 is based on asp.net web forms and not MVC like v5.
Books Starter Kit - Value cannot be null or empty (viewName)
I recently installed Umbraco 5 RC1 along with the default Books starter kit. The installation went fine and I was able to preview the site as well. However, when I went to the administration page ("dashboard"?) to edit the description of the content, I got the following server error:
This occurred after the content was saved/published and then previewed. The error also occurs if I hit the URL directly.
This is on my local dev machine and it's running ASP.NET 4.0, Windows 7, and IIS 7.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
David
Hi David
I'm not sure what is going on but it's most likely a bug.
Bug found in RC1 should be reported to the core team here: http://issues.umbraco.org/issues
/Jan
I think it has to do with the node in question not having a template assigned. I think they haven't implemented the 404 for "no template" nodes or decided what they will be doing for that case :)
-Tom
I already reported this issue: http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U5-58. Please vote for it.
Jeroen
Thanks for the quick followup! In this situation, do you think the cause is due to the starter kit or the CMS? Updating a page just seems like a common action that would be thoroughly tested and is fairly robust. So I'm leaning towards an error with the starter kit. Is there a simple way to rollback the starter kit? If I have time I'll probably install 4.7.1 and give it a go.
David
This is not related to the starter kit, but the CMS. The nodes don't have a template and that's what's causing the error. As Tom said it's probably something which hasn't been implemented yet. It's still a RC of course.
Jeroen
David
Since it's still an RC as pinted out above I think you should install v4.7 for now if you're looking for a stable version. But be aware that 4.7 is based on asp.net web forms and not MVC like v5.
/Jan
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