I change something on the Global Configuration and save it. The page is refreshed within a second or two with the old data, not the change. It then runs for many seconds, ~10-15, and finally fully refreshes - the last things to paint appear to be the red and green yes/no toggles. I do not think the database is updated - if I change the editor, then edit an article, I continue to see the former editor, not the one I attempted to change to.
So, what was I doing prior to noticing this failure of Global Configuration? I had added about 60 user groups and close to that many access lists and about 30 categories, although as of yet, not many articles or users. Therefore, most of the user access stuff is still unused. I also did install JCE.
I have reviewed the browser source code, but am not sure what everything is. I have also reviewed various *.php files in the directories of Joomla looking for signs of a virus, but nothing looks suspicious. I have experience cleaning up viruses I have using other CMSs. Different browsers produce the same result. I have cleared the caches of the browsers and of Joomla. I probably did other stuff over the last day and a half too, but I do not remember it all.
I'm hesitant to even say (I don't want to misdirect people), but I'm wondering if the time delay after most of the page is painted has to do with the building of the filter and permission stuff (for the filter and permission tabs) due to having so many user groups and ACLs. Nonetheless, how does that explain the real problem of updates not being saved? I can be patient.
I wanted to ask the group prior to undoing the work I did to create the 150 or so categories, user groups, ACLS. It was a boring, laborious time consuming process in the back end UI. I do not know Joomla well enough to be comfortable just pushing this stuff into the DB using SQL - I'm not sure all the points of the DB that might need updating. This is my first Joomla site. Also, I have to admit I tried it a couple or few years ago and gave up. I'm getting much further this time. Thanks in part of great [youtube] tutorials - I just wish I could run them at 1.3x speed
On a side note: For many user groups, I have a daughter group with the word Edit concatenated to the end. The one group can view the article, the other group can view and create, edit, etc the article. I am missing a Joomla concept here? I fear I am. I have 22 facilities of different people and 8 committees of different people. Each facility and committee will have their own blog, visible only to them (members of the group) and editable by a subset of the members of that group. Of course a bunch of other stuff is going on, but the redundancy of my work dealing with these facility and committee specific blogs makes me think there might be a better way of dealing with users, groups, ACLs and permissions than I am. Thanks for advice - maybe I should have put this in a separate post, but I think the implementation of my (possibly ill conceived) design of groups, ACLs and permissions, might have created this failure I am witnessing.
Help! and thanks
Peter
