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Zac 223 posts 575 karma points

Mar 26, 2015 @ 18:43

Contour in Umbraco 7 - Exceptions and no Navigation pane?

Has something gone wrong with our upgrade, or does Contour not work properly in Umbraco 7?

We haven't got a left navigation Pane, which means you have to keep going back and forward in the browser.

Also there seems to be an issue where we get a Null Reference Exception with Rendering the Macros and we never manage to get through to MvcRenderContourForm.cshtml

Any tips?

UPDATE: More detailed error information provided. Running 7.2.1 with Contour 3.0.25.

Error seems to be in the umbraco.cms.businesslogic.marco.macroModel constructor?

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

@Umbraco.RenderMacro("umbracoContour.RazorRenderForm", new { FormGuid = "my-form-guid" })

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) +465
   umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) +301
   Umbraco.Web.UmbracoHelper.RenderMacro(String alias, IDictionary`2 parameters, page umbracoPage) +81
   ASP._Page_Views_FormContactUs_cshtml.<Execute>b__0() in c:\myproject\Website\Views\FormContactUs.cshtml:7
   System.Web.WebPages.<>c__DisplayClassb.<RenderSection>b__9(TextWriter tw) +288
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.Write(HelperResult result) +88
   ASP._Page_Views__ContourTemplate_cshtml.Execute() in c:\myproject\Website\Views\_ContourTemplate.cshtml:28
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() +279
   System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy() +124
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) +195
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.Write(HelperResult result) +88
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.RenderSurrounding(String partialViewName, Action`1 body) +232
   System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.PopContext() +286
   Umbraco.Core.Profiling.ProfilingView.Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer) +139
   System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context) +379
   System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClass1a.<InvokeActionResultWithFilters>b__17() +32
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation) +613
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation) +613
   System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult) +263
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass25.<BeginInvokeAction>b__22(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +240
   System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClass1d.<BeginExecuteCore>b__18(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +28
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass4.<MakeVoidDelegate>b__3(IAsyncResult ar) +15
   System.Web.Mvc.Controller.EndExecuteCore(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +53
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass4.<MakeVoidDelegate>b__3(IAsyncResult ar) +15
   System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClass8.<BeginProcessRequest>b__3(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +42
   System.Web.Mvc.Async.<>c__DisplayClass4.<MakeVoidDelegate>b__3(IAsyncResult ar) +15
   System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +606
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +288

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Mar 27, 2015 @ 17:03

Hi Zac

I think that's because with the release of Umbraco 7.2 you know need to use Umbraco Forms, which is the replacement for Contour. Unfortunately that's really messy at the moment :-(

You can learn more about forms by reading some of the answers in this post https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/umbraco-forms-migration/computer-says-no/59806-What-are-Umbraco-Forms-%28vs-Contour-Forms%29

Hope this helps a bit.

/Jan

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Zac 223 posts 575 karma points

Mar 29, 2015 @ 12:38

Thanks Jan.

Do you know if it's possible to get Contour working properly, on the front-end at least? We can probably put up with degraded back-office functionality if it's just visual stuff like the navigation pane.

Migrating to a new forms system right now is probably out of scope for us and we have some very complicated forms with quite a few customisations so I doubt very much it would be a straightforward migration.

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Mar 29, 2015 @ 19:41

Hi Zac

Sorry, but I'm not sure that it's possible but have not yet tried myself so don't know the exact in's and out's :-/

/Jan

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Zac 223 posts 575 karma points

Mar 29, 2015 @ 21:43

I thought that might be the case :( Thanks Jan

So I bit the bullet and went ahead with Tim's migration tool, which worked, only it seems the existing form submission data is breaking the system when we submit a form on the front-end? I posted in another thread about this topic, trying to find out what database changes I need to make or which tables might need truncating:

https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-pro/contour/60633-Umbraco-forms-error-after-submitting#comment214606

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Zac 223 posts 575 karma points

Mar 31, 2015 @ 22:50

Solution for the above problem as I posted in another thread:

You need to remove the UFRecordXXX tables in the database, and only those tables. You can either rename them and their keys, or drop them. I chose to rename them in the hope that someone might write a migration script or plugin. Once they are removed you can run the script to install the new Umbraco Forms records schema.

Here's the SQL:

Rename the Contour records tables:

EXEC sp_rename UFRecordDataBit, ContourUFRecordDataBit
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordDataDateTime, ContourUFRecordDataDateTime
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordDataInteger, ContourUFRecordDataInteger
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordDataLongString, ContourUFRecordDataLongString
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordDataString, ContourUFRecordDataString
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordFields, ContourUFRecordFields
EXEC sp_rename UFRecords, ContourUFRecords
EXEC sp_rename UFRecordsXml, ContourUFRecordsXml
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordDataBit_UFRecordFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordDataBit_UFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordDataDateTime_UFRecordFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordDataDateTime_UFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordDataInteger_UFRecordFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordDataInteger_UFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordDataLongString_UFRecordFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordDataLongString_UFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordDataString_UFRecordFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordDataString_UFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'PK_UFRecordFields', 'PK_ContourUFRecordFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordFields_UFFields', 'FK_ContourUFRecordFields_UFFields', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordFields_UFRecords', 'FK_ContourUFRecordFields_UFRecords', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'PK_UFRecords', 'PK_ContourUFRecords', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecords_UFForms', 'FK_ContourUFRecords_UFForms', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'PK_UFRecordsXml', 'PK_ContourUFRecordsXml', 'OBJECT';
EXEC sp_rename 'FK_UFRecordsXml_UFForms', 'FK_ContourUFRecordsXml_UFForms', 'OBJECT';

Drop the Contour records tables (for those braver than myself):

DROP TABLE UFRecordDataBit
DROP TABLE UFRecordDataDateTime
DROP TABLE UFRecordDataInteger
DROP TABLE UFRecordDataLongString
DROP TABLE UFRecordDataString
DROP TABLE UFRecordFields
DROP TABLE UFRecords
DROP TABLE UFRecordsXml

Once those are out of the way you can run Tim Geyssens' script which will create the new tables.

The SQL to generate the new Umbraco Forms UFRecords tables (as posted by Tim): http://pastebin.com/sW4CeTCn

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