Unable to publish items I got used a submission form

A user published text using a submission form I've set at edoula.me/index.php/my-pregnancy ... r-story-en .

When I go to the back end and try to publish it, I get the following error message:

Error while validating data: exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'Field required: Primary category' in /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/joomla/form/form.php:1958 Stack trace: #0 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/joomla/form/form.php(1200): JForm->validateField(Object(SimpleXMLElement), '', NULL, Object(Joomla\Registry\Registry)) #1 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/legacy/model/form.php(302): JForm->validate(Array, NULL) #2 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/controllers/items.php(173): JModelForm->validate(Object(JForm), Array) #3 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/legacy/controller/legacy.php(730): FlexicontentControllerItems->save() #4 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/admin.flexicontent.php(222): JControllerLegacy->execute('apply') #5 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/flexicontent.php(22): require_once('/home/edoula/pu...') #6 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/component/helper.php(352): require_once('/home/edoula/pu...') #7 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/component/helper.php(332): JComponentHelper::executeComponent('/home/edoula/pu...') #8 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/administrator.php(98): JComponentHelper::renderComponent('com_flexiconten...') #9 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/administrator.php(152): JApplicationAdministrator->dispatch() #10 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/cms.php(251): JApplicationAdministrator->doExecute() #11 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/index.php(42): JApplicationCms->execute() #12 {main}Please click here to return previous page

joomla and flexicontent version ?

Joomla 3.3.4
Flexicontent 2.2.0 r1967

at first update to r1974
clean all cache and retest
regards

Hello

the form was submitted without category selected,

e.g. due to some JS error in the page, you were not stopped from submitting the form

the expected behaviour is that user is redirected back to the form with a message that he did not select category


Is this the case : ?

e.g. due to some JS error in the page, you were not stopped from submitting the form

Category was not selected, right ?




-- We need to fix this so that it redirects back to the form when category was not selected (for some reason the form validation did not stop user from submitting the form, e.g. JS error due to 3rd party JS code)

I updated to the latest version.
Category is selected since I only allowed on category for that form. I don't get any error when submitting the form. Just a message that I can't make any more changes to the form.

This is the error I got on the back end (I think it's the same):

Error while validating data: exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'Field required: Primary category' in /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/joomla/form/form.php:1958 Stack trace: #0 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/joomla/form/form.php(1200): JForm->validateField(Object(SimpleXMLElement), '', NULL, Object(Joomla\Registry\Registry)) #1 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/legacy/model/form.php(302): JForm->validate(Array, NULL) #2 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/controllers/items.php(173): JModelForm->validate(Object(JForm), Array) #3 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/legacy/controller/legacy.php(730): FlexicontentControllerItems->save() #4 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/admin.flexicontent.php(222): JControllerLegacy->execute('apply') #5 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/components/com_flexicontent/flexicontent.php(22): require_once('/home/edoula/pu...') #6 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/component/helper.php(352): require_once('/home/edoula/pu...') #7 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/component/helper.php(332): JComponentHelper::executeComponent('/home/edoula/pu...') #8 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/administrator.php(98): JComponentHelper::renderComponent('com_flexiconten...') #9 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/administrator.php(152): JApplicationAdministrator->dispatch() #10 /home/edoula/public_html/libraries/cms/application/cms.php(251): JApplicationAdministrator->doExecute() #11 /home/edoula/public_html/administrator/index.php(42): JApplicationCms->execute() #12 {main}Please click here to return previous page

Hello

the proper behavior instead of this exception is to redirect back to the item with a message:

"You have not selected item's category"

will make fix for the redirection


in short the above is normal if category was not selected



the real problem is:
how did you submit the backend form without selecting category ?

-- the Javascript validation should stop you from submitting the form without selecting category

-- do you have a custom backend Joomla template ?
(it could be the cause of the JS error)


if you select category in backend and submit then you do not get the error message, correct ?

I think the category is selected since it's listed on the form.

Yes. I use Shape5.com template. Is there any way to check if this cause the problem?

Hello

so you have a custom Backend template

can you temporarily switch to one of Joomla default templates? and test ?

Sorry, but I've decided to use another form for my story's submission since this form is too complicated for the users.

If you need to test this for other users than I can try to help and set a temporary page with the default Joomla template.