Important Threads has vanished!

[gb9454]

Forum URL: talkaboutfootball.freeforums.net/

Important Threads is no longer showing on my forum. The last thing I did was to add an event to the calendar. I've deleted the calendar event and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling but still nothing.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Craig]

Hi mate

Where should these 'Important Threads' be showing, and where you using a plugin to display them?

[user_1004d]

The plugin key appears to have been corrupted by a bad entry [
 [
   null,
   null,
   691,
   "Unknown",
   "Unknown",
   "Unknown",
   "Unknown"
 ],
 [
   "738",
   "Gold Cup Prediction League (Saturday 25 July)",
   4,
   "@jkb",
   "jkb",
   "user-link user-7 group-1",
   1437723661686
 ],
 [
   "737",
   "RBC Canadian Open (Thu 23 July - Sun 26 July)",
   5,
   "@jkb",
   "jkb",
   "user-link user-7 group-1",
   1437723536148
 ],
 [
   "736",
   "Omega European Masters (Thu 23 July - Sun 26 July)",
   5,
   "@jkb",
   "jkb",
   "user-link user-7 group-1",
   1437723591399
 ],
 [
   "735",
   "Gold Cup Prediction League Table (Wed 22 Jul - Thu 23 Jul)",
   "1",
   "@admin",
   "gb",
   "user-link user-1 group-1",
   1437655374000
 ],
 [
   "734",
   "Gold Cup Prediction League Results (Wed 22 Jul - Thu 23 Jul)",
   "1",
   "@admin",
   "gb",
   "user-link user-1 group-1",
   1437655072000
 ]
]

See the entry with the bunch of "unknown" and "null"? That is what is causing the plugin to fail with a javascript error.

I'm not entirely familiar with the options that particular plugin gives you to choose which thread is important but if it is a relatively easy action then the easiest solution would be to just clear the key and recreate the entries. Clear the key in the plugin section of the admin panel on the KEYS tab which can be found next to the MANAGE and BUILD tabs. The name of the key will be "important_thread".

It might also be prudent to notify the author of that plugin so he/she can offer an option to have the key permissions configured so only certain users can set values to the key. The fact that user 691 doesn't exist on the forum suggest it might have been a drive-by key shooting or a bad acting member who no longer is with your community.

[gb9454]

Hi and thanks for your help. The issue has now been resolved. I uninstalled the plugin again, reinstalled it and restarted my PC. That's seems to have done the trick. Not sure if there's an issue/conflict between Important Threads and Calendar though.
Thanks again.