I'm having a bizarre random problem. I have two textareas on a cck node type. Sometimes when I edit a node from this node type, contents from the second field are dumped into the first textarea and replaces any content that should be shown the first. This happens about half the time. I'm at at a loss to explain this. I'm using FF 2.X.

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Steve Dondley commented

I did a 20 run trial. The text areas loaded correctly only 3 times out of 20. The rest of the time, the contents from field 2 replaced the contents from field 1.

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Steve Dondley commented

I cannot duplicate this issue with IE7, only Firefox.

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Steve Dondley commented

Two other observations that might help troubleshoot this problem:

  • The bug is much less likely to happen if I have my browser set to full screen with the f11 key. When the browser window is smaller, it's much more likely to happen.
  • When the bug occurs, the "Switch to plain text editor" link never displays below the first textarea. It does, however, display below the second. When things work, the "Switch to plain text editor" shows up fine.
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Steve Dondley commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

Alright, I was able to eliminate this problem by setting the "Show disable/enable rich text editor toggle" setting to false. Downgrading the priority on this to normal since there is a workaround. However, this issue becomes more critical if users are not allowed to view the source of the posting with the "source" button.

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wwalc commented

Can you check the latest dev release which will be available tomorrow?
It may have something to do with the way how FCKeditor was loaded.

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webcomm commented

I'm also seeing this with FCK and CCK. I haven't tried the dev release yet.

In 6.x-1.2-1, If I click an "edit" link directly from the content item, the content in my "Intro" CCK field appears in both the Intro field and in the Body field. The problem only occurs when FCK is enabled.

If I visit this page...

/admin/content/node

...and click an "edit" link from there, the problem does not occur. It only occurs when visiting the edit interface directly from the content item itself. It's as if visiting
/admin/content/node clears some cache somewhere, or changes how FCK loads.

Changing the "Show disable/enable rich text editor toggle" setting to false is a workaround, as previously mentioned.

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webcomm commented

I installed the dev release and am not seeing this bug anymore.

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Jorrit commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Does this solve the issue for others as well?

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Jorrit commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Closed because of inactivity. If it is still a problem, please reopen.