In some cases group owners have errors on the website after the update to 4.4. This is due to a 500 error:

Error: Call to a member function getEntityTypeId() on boolean in template_preprocess_activity() (line 61 of /app/html/profiles/contrib/social/modules/custom/activity_creator/activity.page.inc) #0

This is due to code introduced in issue #3026071 which changes the actor for activities. It doesn't check if the entity is a boolean which can be the case if there are no referenced entities found.

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jaapjan created an issue. See original summary.

jaapjan credited ronaldtebrake.

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jaapjan commented
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Active » Needs review

PR:
https://github.com/goalgorilla/open_social/pull/1228

Marking as normal as it does seem to impact only platforms which somehow already contain invalid activity data.

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jochemvn commented
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Can confirm this fixes the issue

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jaapjan commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed
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chlodewig commented

I have the same error at a working installation.
Only one user out of 150 get this error:

Error: Call to a member function getEntityTypeId() on boolean in template_preprocess_activity() (Zeile 61...

How did you solve this problem? I cleared every cache and deleted the activities from this user in the database.
What else can I do to find the invalid activity data?

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chlodewig commented
Status: Fixed » Active
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chlodewig commented

Additional info: I'm working with the newest Open Social version: 4.5

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jaapjan commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Hi chlodewig, not sure if you did it already, but you could apply the patch in this issue. That should solve it. The fix will be in 4.6.

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chlodewig commented

OK. Now I got it. Every thing is fine. Thank you.

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bramtenhove commented

We received this error for a client website. I traced it back to a content item posted in to a group and being moved out of the group.

This fix suppresses the error message, but users will see a notification in their stream or notification centre like: User X created [social_group:created_entity_link_html] in the [message:gtitle] group.

I was under the impression that we remove activities when we move content out of a group, this might be in fact the reason this fix was needed. Would be good to do a follow up check in that part of the code.

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ronaldtebrake commented
Related issues: +#2972274: Follow up: Update activities about moving content between groups

  • 1f9f4a6 committed on 8.x-4.x 
    Issue #3034318 by jaapjan, jochemvn: prevent Notifications 500 errors...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.