Will not let me rename or change subcategories?

[Zerodog]

Trying last night and this morning to change a sub cat name. I pull it up in my control panel pick my category and none of my subcategories are listed.:dunno I have done this before with no issues.

Site: www.theinfinitymachine.com

[Andy]

Cat name and subcat name you are trying to change on your site?

[Zerodog]

Cat name and subcat name you are trying to change on your site?

Cat. Events

Sub Cat WCFC 10-16-2011 Wrong date!! OOPS! That is my wrong link I don't want to start sending out to everyone.:rofl

[Zerodog]

Just tried at my work computer too. Same deal. Doesn't list the sub cats for me to change.

[Andy]

I see it. I'm sorry, I don't yet know what's going on - but we're trying to figure it out. Doc will reply when we have news.

[Zerodog]

got prints to sell and need to beat the other photogs to delivery!

Can you guys just change it for me? I need everything the same, just 2011 changed to 2010 on that sub cat.

Let me know what happened. Is it just me, or everyone. Did I do it screwing with the CSS?

Thanks for the help guys.

[Zerodog]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!

[Andy]

Can you make a new Sub Cat with Slightly different name?

[Zerodog]

I can try. I think I tried to make a new Subcat and it wouldn't let me either. It is just locking me out of the option on the pull down menus across the board on that control panel page.

Can you guys change it? Or is it the same method on your end?

[Andy]

I'm trying to see if we can change it.

[Zerodog]

Tried to create a new sub cat. Seemed to work. Moved all galleries to it in control panel. It did not work. The old sub cat still has all the galleries in it and the new sub cat doesn't show.

???? So I am right where I started with it.

[Allen]

Tried to create a new sub cat. Seemed to work. Moved all galleries to it in control panel. It did not work. The old sub cat still has all the galleries in it and the new sub cat doesn't show.

???? So I am right where I started with it.
Under each gallery settings change the sub-cat, I don't know of any bulk way.

[cabbey]

Ok, I think I've got you all fixed up now. The root problem was that you had several categories and subcategories that had " and @ in them, these broke our forms and prevented you from being able to do anything with any of your categories or subcategories. I changed @ to at in one subcategory, and changed a pattern like: 'Event Type "Name"' to 'Event Type - Name' in 1 category and several subcategories. The forms appear to work again.

Note that if you're renaming them, but not changing the nicename, you will need to do it twice. First rename the item to what you want and add -tmp to the end of the nice name, then rename again without changing the name, just removing -tmp from the nice name. Otherwise the first try fails because it sees the old item with the same nicename and thinks it's a conflict. We have a todo item filed to deal with that annoyance when we redo these pages.

[Zerodog]

Cool. So no more @ symbols. They are the devil.

Thanks guys!

[Andy]

Cool. So no more @ symbols. They are the devil.

Thanks guys!

And " and ' too - yes, we'll work on preventing them on the UI.

[Zerodog]

Sold my first photos off my site tonight, from the gallery you guys helped with. Thanks again!