Hi,

It is a permission issue if you can't any context menu to work...
I'm running multiple sites using Plesk and didn't have any issues in applying the required rights on the folders and files.

Are you sure the permissions have been applied on folders AND subfolders of any folder. Also, what user have you set the permissions for?

I've used this 'tutorial' and it worked a treat:

"HOW TO: Set umbraco Directory Permissions Using Plesk" at http://www.squidoo.com/umbraco

Hope this helps.

Regards,
/Dirk

I didn't uncheck "Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate..." or check "Replace permission entries on all child objects...", but I granted the IUSR_ full access to all directories/files the installer mentioned ("Please give write permissions to the following objects").
I didn't get any error message from the installer afterwards either...

Now it works! Hallelujah!

I had to give the permissions to the IWPD user, not (at least not only) to the IUSR.
Thanks.

I'm having a similar problem.  Nothing appears on any of the sections (Content, Media, Users, Settings, Developer, Members) except the root node.  When I right-click the context menu flickers quickly and then disappears.  

I also attempted giving "Everyone" full rights to the wwwroot and all its children to verify it was a permissions issue.  No luck there.

My recycling bin is even missing.  I managed to capture the issue in a few screenshots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddouglass/3704937870/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ddouglass/3704128927/

Thanks in advance!

Have you updated to the newest version?

Yes, I'm using 4.0.2.1.  This is actually a new site we are constructing.  This code works just fine on one of our servers (copied from the local environment) using the same database.

I've verified all the installation steps (permissions, ajax, asp.net 2.0/3.5/3.5 SP1, etc.) and all pass the test.  I wiped the directory and tried a fresh install w/ the code from CodePlex - same result.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

Update
When I search for a node that I know exists and select it in the search my content editor pane shows the node's properties properly.  However, I still see nothing in the navigation menu to the left and right-click gives me that odd functionality.</span>

This sounds very similar to an issue I had yesterday with disappearing content menus. The problem turned out to be that Umbraco was referencing the newest version of the AjaxControlToolkit (v3.03) which it doesn't work well with at all. It's probably worth checking web.config to see that the right (1.1) version is being referenced or that you haven't copied a newer version into the bin directory.

My problem was caused by another program (crappy Immediacy CMS installer) arbitrariliy installing the AjaxControlToolkit into the Global Assembly Cache, so Umbraco was picking up that version. I had to update the assembly references in web.config to explicitly use 1.1.

Thanks Rick, but unfortunately that was not the issue.  

Any other ideas?

Thanks!

FIXED!

It seemed that the IIS accounts did not have access to create the temporary classes necessary to build the tree in c:\windows\temp.  I added the IIS users and gave them right permissions and everything worked!

The exception in the application log read:

Exception information: 

    Exception type: InvalidOperationException 

    Exception message: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).

error CS2001: Source file 'C:\Windows\TEMP\f8xdehk6.0.cs' could not be found

error CS2008: No inputs specified

Hope this helps someone else.

Could we not alter the path to use a private temp folder rather than the system temp folder? Very much like the way the data folder is configured in the web.config. When hosting umBraco with an ISP, they will not be particularly open to allowing write access to the system drive.

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