Copy childpage leads always to a failure message

[Juergen]

Hello @ all,

I want to copy a childpage in the page tree and I always get this error message:

Can't save field from a new page - please save the entire page first

Saving the entire page doesnt solve the problem. Has anyone an idea why this message appear on the screen. Copying the parent page works quite well. The problem is only at the children.

Best regards Jürgen

[BitPoet]

Are you copying through the UI or API? If the latter, can you show the relevant snippet of code?

[Juergen]

From the UI in the backend

[BitPoet]

Never seen that. Maybe you could use Tracy Debugger to get a full stack trace that points you to where the call to $pages->saveField originates (perhaps some module?).

[Juergen]

Quite good idea!

Unfortunately always the loading spinner is beside the title and I get no errors from Tracy.

I have tried it with the parent page and I get an error form the Page rename module. But the parent page copy function works. Maybe it has something to do with this module.

I use the latest devs (3.0.12)

[Juergen]

Strange behaviour. The copy function works if the page the should be copied is unpublished. If the page is published the duplication fails. Maybe it has something to do with the publish from date field.

My setting is that the current date will be filled in if nothing is entered in the publish from field. If I copy this page maybe the publish date will also be copied and then it will be in the past. Could this be a reason?

[BitPoet]

You mean the Schedule Pages module? That's actually possible. From a quick glimpse, it hooks before Pages::save and, if a publish_from date is set, tries to clear that and calls "$page->save('publish_from');". This line should probably only be executed if $page->isNew() returns false.

[Juergen]

Yes exactly. I will take a look next week.

[thlinna]

I ran into exact same problem. Only (working) solution I've come around is to uninstall the Content Scheduler module. Is there any bug fix or way around this issue for a PW novice?