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After patching to 1.0.10 I have found that all sections and categories no longer display their description. Example:

Menu link to a Section will show a list of the categories and their descriptions, but not the description of the section. Clicking on any category link will display the content items in that category, but will no longer show the category description.

The description is still present in the Joomla database, just not being displayed in the front end.

Hi,

I'm having the same problem - descriptions are missing from the front end.
(Upgrade from 1.0.8 to 1.0.10)

I've got the same problem. I upgraded from 1.0.9. I wonder whats causing it? This is a major problem for my site and I hope a fix is known soon.

It is not THE solution, but if you replace the file /components/com_content/content.html.php by the one from version 1.0.9. everything works fine (for the time being).

I think I found the solution. Go into your menu manager and put the Section Description to "Hide". Then save and go back and put it to  "Show". That worked on my site.

Toggling the Show Description did not work for me. I may have to try the file from 1.0.9 as suggested earlier. Also, one of my links to a section completely goes fruity and displays nothing but the title of the section followed by a bullet in the next line all in black unformatted text on a blank white page. Nothing else is displayed of the site. I have only found this single link so far generating this sort of response, but it happens to be the "About us" link so pretty vital and highly visited link.

Interestingly this solution doesn't work for me either.

I wonder if this is happening in all 1.0.10 installations or if there is a conflict with some other element that is consistent with the installations exhiting this problem. Here is the configuration on my server:

Mac OS X Server 10.4.6
PHP 5.1.4
MySQL 5.0.16

I had this problem after upgrading to 1.0.10 and toggling "Show Description" worked for me.  Thanks.

In your Menu Manager, go to the Section name (Edit Menu Item :: List - Content Section) and make sure that "Category List - Category" is set to Show. That fixes it for me.

The toggle solution is now working for me. Apparently some of my links had trouble with OpenSEF so I deleted all OpenSEF links and had it recreate them as well as toggling the section links and now all is well again.

I had the same problem, but the toggle wasn't necessary. I just had to open it and save it. Maybe the new parameter needed to be saved to the database or something. This parameter was not in the previous release.

Hi All,

Why is this marked "resolved?"

I have 381 sections.  Going through and toggling its display property isn't exactly a valid option.  And it's hardly "resolved" if we have to replace an updated file with an old one.

Sorry if this post is a bit overly direct, but I'm now wondering if I should post this problem again lest it be ignored as "resolved."

Best,

H

I was think the same thing after I marked it. I changed it to work around, does that sound better to you? This is only effecting links to Sections for everyone correct? I thought it effected Categories as well, but now I think not from checking several different sites.

"Work Around" is much more accurate. . . thanks! 

Okay, so just in case anyone is curious or wants to write up a SQL query that will fix up the DB, here's what changes when you open a section, change "Section Description" to "hide", apply, then click "show" and apply.

Changes/Additions are in bold:

menu_image=-1
page_title=1
pageclass_sfx=
back_button=
description_sec=1
description_sec_image=1
orderby=
other_cat_section=1
empty_cat_section=1
description_cat=1
description_cat_image=1
other_cat=1
empty_cat=1
cat_items=1
cat_description=1
date_format=
date=
author=
hits=
headings=1
navigation=1
order_select=1
display=1
display_num=50
filter=1
filter_type=title
unpublished=1

So, I'm no code monkey, but it seems pretty clear that the new PHP files in the front-end are expecting values (in this case, description_sec) that aren't present until the record is modified via Joomla 1.0.10.

Seems like this would be a case where the upgrade should have been accompanied by a "database updater" to the new "schema" (if possible) that would have looked for the old value that set whether Section Descriptions were shown (if there was one, or did they just show always if you had content in them?) and then apply it to the new value.

But, of course, this security release seemed pretty urgent, so the Joomla gods may have decided to get the patch out without such a script before the world came crashing down. 

But what do I know?  Just trying to understand the problem here and avoid toggling that setting on 350 menu entries (we run a database of toys, characters, and episode guide for a show and our sections serve as the "profile" for each item with user-submitted content in categories below it).

Best,

H

One quick note if you're (like me) just biting the bullet and fixing this by hand.  You don't have to toggle the "section description" heading.  It seems to default to "show". . . so all you need to do is open the menu item, then save it.  And then just move on to the next menu item.

Of course, maybe mine are defaulting to "show" because they're picking up on the older value (they all used to show).  But I don't think so.

Hopefully this will lower the amount of clicking out there for some of us trying to just soldier on through. . . 

That was enough for me too.

Woops, should have noticed that you had already mentioned that! 

Q&T Note; topic is marked superseded. If you think this is still a problem, please verify in 1.0.11, I was unable to confirm this issue though.

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