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Yes, The Green Button is Having Issues

Microsoft appeared to have fixed one of the issues I was having on the backend, but that fix has caused the entire site to come to its knees with wonderful message like "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: relativeUrl" when attempting to make a new post or reply.  Unfortunantly, since I don't have direct access to the server there is nothing I can personally do about it.

Sadly since you can’t make a new post or reply, The Green Button will effectively be down until Microsoft can fix the issue.  Ian’s forums on The Digital Lifestyle might be a good overflow forum until Microsoft fixes The Green Button.

Update: Looks like some are having luck posting (I'm not one of them).  Try signing out and then back in.

Cross Posted from Chris Lanier's Blog at http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/
Published Jan 31 2009, 11:44 AM by Chris - Moderator
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Comments

 

mummu said:

say what?
January 31, 2009 10:31 AM
 

USArcher said:

no problem here
January 31, 2009 2:51 PM
 

arovner said:

Chris, there will only be a problem if relativeUrl is empty, when submitted by a user.  As long as there is some content, no error will occur.  The other solution to this problem is to edit the database table that contains relativeUrl and set the allow null property to true.

Good luck,
Al Rovner
January 31, 2009 7:31 PM
 

Chris - Moderator said:

The problem is people are getting it when clicking "Reply", meaning there is no content in question and it is simply a request.

I'd poke around and see what I can find if I had access to the server (sadly I don't).
January 31, 2009 8:38 PM
 

Hokie74 said:

I was able to use the "Quick Reply" option. All the other posting buttons crash.
February 1, 2009 5:26 AM
 

powell14ski said:

Why do I feel like this is somehow Microsoft's fault. Its like anything they touch eventually breaks. Like the old saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
February 1, 2009 7:42 PM
 

Chris - Moderator said:

Problem is, it was broke to start with (been for several years now).
February 1, 2009 9:07 PM
 

cw-kid said:

Using the quick reply instead was working for me yesterday.
February 1, 2009 9:57 PM
 

jmallory07 said:

You can't back out the change?
February 2, 2009 3:45 AM
 

PeteBrownMSFT said:

Chris - I know they had planned to work on te site over the weekend to repair some of the forum bugs we have been seeing. I'll see what else I can find out.
February 2, 2009 7:15 AM
 

mm60 said:

I am also seeing a problem where I automatically scroll down to the bottom of a page as soon as I enter a post. If I move the scrollbar to the top of it page, it immediately scrolls back down as soon as I release the bar. Hope this gets fixed soon. Very painful trying to read multi-posts.
February 3, 2009 4:16 PM
 

Hokie74 said:

I s this forum going to broken for weeks?
February 4, 2009 4:46 PM


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