Re: [Fle3-users] Fle3 1.0b export error

[Tarmo Toikkanen]

On 20.08.2002, 12:18:48, Bas van der Linden wrote:
> We've installed both 1.0b and 1.2b, to give people the chance to upgrade
> to a new FLE themselves, since it's not possible to upgrade easily systemwide.
>
> However, in order to upgrade, people need to export the contents of their
> current FLE instance and import them into the new one.
>
> And that export seems to break in some cases.

Hi Bas,

Well, checking the code it seems that one of the user accounts in this
particular Fle3 has a "None" value as its background information
(which is a free form string value, normally). I personally cannot
find any way how that could happen, since an empty string is always
returned if for some reason the attribute itself did not exist. I can
only fathom that the owner of this particular Fle3 has somehow called
one user's set_background method with an explicit None value. Removing
the afflicted user account should clear the problem.

I tried to reproduce this problem, but could not. Something very
strange is going on in the database of this Fle3 instance.

If you can get us a copy of the FLE instance, we can have a look at
it. At this point I can't really help much further without more
information.

As a sidenote, version 1.0b is really broken and its export
functionality is also quite crude. This transition phase may be a bit
painful for your users.

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Tarmo Toikkanen
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