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Print at Sep 6, 2025, 5:35:59 PM

Posted by mygig at Feb 15, 2009, 1:53:40 PM

Re: Add Event button sometimes doesn't add the event

Another member recently posted this same problem.

I suspect the issue at work relates to event descriptions pasted from MS Word. Beyond the visible text you appear to paste, Word includes a lot of other baggage that blows out the 2,000 character limit in the event description.

I think the Anonymous Event addition screen has a bug that is not informing users when this has occurred. Thus, it appears the event has been added successfully when in fact the underlying database will reject it.

We are trying to duplicate this problem and either strip out Word's extra "junk", or provide an appropriate error message.

Usually, when I've posted something from MS Word and the formatting has added more than the 2000 characters, I have gotten a more than 2000 characters message.

The system didn't go ahead and indicate that the item was successfully posted when it wasn't so there appears to be something else going on.

I did try a couple of test events using the Add Event button rather than my User ID and PW and they posted OK.

All I can do right now when I'm notified of an event being added is check to see if it's really on and if not, add it myself.