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From: Maher Qahwash <qahwash AT kfupm.edu.sa>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:41:44 +0300

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Hello,

We changed the values of divisions for several eprintids in the ↵
eprint_divisions table in mysql to move them in bulk to another division, then ↵
did generate_abstracts which gave the correct results but with the bellow error ↵
, then did generate views which also gave correct results and actually moved ↵
them to the new divisions, one thing we noticed is the divisions value in the ↵
eprint__ordervalue_en table did not change to the new value , will this have ↵
any effect anywhere? 
this is the generate_abstracts error we received:

Writing abstracts
 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 string ne at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm line 580.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 string ne at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm line 580.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 substitution (s///) at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm ↵
l
ine 1563.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 concatenation (.) or string at ↵
/var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Docum
ent.pm line 1565.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 hash element at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Export/DC.pm line ↵
158
.

 (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of uninitialized value ↵
in
 hash element at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Export/DC.pm line ↵
158

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From: Tim Brody <tdb01r AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:57:55 +0100

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Maher Qahwash wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> We changed the values of divisions for several eprintids in the 
> eprint_divisions table in mysql to move them in bulk to another 
> division, then did generate_abstracts which gave the correct results 
> but with the bellow error , then did generate views which also gave 
> correct results and actually moved them to the new divisions, one 
> thing we noticed is the divisions value in the eprint__ordervalue_en 
> table did not change to the new value , will this have any effect 
> anywhere? 
> this is the generate_abstracts error we received:
>  
> Writing abstracts
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  string ne at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm 
> line 580.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  string ne at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm 
> line 580.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  substitution (s///) at 
> /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Document.pm l
> ine 1563.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  concatenation (.) or string at 
> /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/DataObj/Docum
> ent.pm line 1565.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  string eq at /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Script.pm line 258.
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  hash element at 
> /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Export/DC.pm line 158
> .
>  
>  (while in configuration subroutine eprint_render) Use of 
> uninitialized value in
>  hash element at 
> /var/lib/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Export/DC.pm line 158
Hi,

It looks to me like you have some broken Document records. From MySQL 
try doing this:

SELECT docid FROM document WHERE format IS NULL;

I think the "quick" fix would be to (assuming it's format):

UPDATE document SET format="other" WHERE format IS NULL;

Cheers,
Tim.

From: Alan Dawson <alan.dawson AT strath.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:39:02 +0100

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Some people have reported getting a series of errors:

"Invalid value id in get_filters...."

when running generate_views in EPrints 3.1.
I hit this too yesterday after importing some department codes
into eprint_divisions. I think that the problem is caused by
undelimited numeric values in a text field (divisions).
These values import ok but cause problems.  The solution I used was to 
run a series of MySQL commands such as:

UPDATE eprint_divisions SET divisions = '12222' where divisions LIKE 
'%12222%';

The data looked the same afterwards but it fixed the problem.
I expect there are other solutions, but adding delimiters to the values 
in the text file before importing (using Mysql LOAD DATA...)  doesn't 
work, as they get imported as characters.

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