[SOLVED] Editing root page causes cascade of changes to children pages [RESOLVED]

[afarmer]

I've adopted the maintenance of a site developed in ProcessWire ( v2.6.1) for a local company. Recently, I've received the complaint that pages seem to be losing their 'status' when I/they modify the content of the root (home) page.

I've been able to replicate this issue on production and on a separate staging environment.

In mind that this could be a module-related issue, here are the installed modules:

• AIOM+ (All In One Minify) for CSS, LESS, JS and HTML    3.2.1
•  Batch child editor    0.8.2
•  FieldtypeCroppableImage    0.8.4
• Map Marker    2.0.6
• Form Builder    0.2.5
• Import Pages from CSV    1.0.5
• Site Indexer (beta)    0.8.0
• InputfieldCroppableImage    0.8.3
• File (for FormBuilder)    0.0.1
• Map Markup (Google Maps)    1.0.1    
• SEO    0.8.2
• Markup Simple Navigation    1.3.3
• Markup Sitemap XML    1.1.0
• Twitter Feed Markup    2.0.1
• Page Action: Delete/Trash Pages    0.0.2
• Page Action: Export Pages to CSV    0.0.2
• Page Action: Move    0.0.1
• Page Action: Set Field Value    0.0.1    
• Page Action: Set Status    0.0.1
• Page Edit Field Permission    0.0.3 
• Page Image Manipulator    0.2.1
• Process Children CSV Export    0.0.2
• ProcessCroppableImage    0.8.4 
• Forms    0.2.5
• Get Video Thumbnails    0.2.8
• Hanna Code    0.1.9
• Jumplinks    1.3.1
• ListerPro    1.0.2
• Hanna Code Text Formatter    0.1.9
• Video embed for YouTube/Vimeo    1.0.9

I've got a number of pages directly under the root/homepage, some of which are being set to 'hidden', 'locked', or 'unpublished' that lose such state on root page save. If there are more details that I can provide, let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Edit: Thanks to everyone for the help. It seemed to be a configuration issue in  Batch child editor    0.8.2 in the 'modes' section, where 'Edit' was checked. Unchecking this prevented the properties cascade from happening.

[abdus]

27 minutes ago, afarmer said:

Page Action: Set Status    0.0.1

Page actions modules look like custom made, and this one seems suspicious. Try disabling/uninstalling it.

Edit: If it doesn't work, search the /site/ directory for `addHook` and look for Page::save / Page::saved / Page::saveReady

[afarmer]

@abdus,

Thanks for the quick response. I've removed the module from ProcessWire but the problem has managed to persist. Additionally, the plugin claims to have been authored by Ryan Cramer (who, by my understanding, authored ProcessWire). Is there additional information I can provide to  assist?

[abdus]

22 minutes ago, abdus said:

If it doesn't work, search the /site/ directory for `addHook` and look for Page::save / Page::saved / Page::saveReady

(In case you haven't seen the edit)

[afarmer]

Ah, you're right. Definitely missed the edit. I checked for instances of Page::save / Page::saved / Page::saveReady in the /site/ directory (using search in VSCode) to no avail. =/

[monchu]

If you're looking for error don't change or remove any installed module.

Activate $config->debug = true; in config.php to see the errors if any,
and study the logs from Log tab, from the date that the users found that error,
and check what is the latest date for new module/s if any

at least from there hopefully you have the starting point to trace the problem 

[afarmer]

34 minutes ago, monchu said:

If you're looking for error don't change or remove any installed module.

Activate $config->debug = true; in config.php to see the errors if any,
and study the logs from Log tab, from the date that the users found that error,
and check what is the latest date for new module/s if any

at least from there hopefully you have the starting point to trace the problem 

Monchu,

Thanks for this. I've enabled debugging in the config.php file, but I'm not seeing any php errors or otherwise.

[adrian]

3 hours ago, afarmer said:

Edit: Thanks to everyone for the help. It seemed to be a configuration issue in  Batch child editor    0.8.2 in the 'modes' section, where 'Edit' was checked.

Sorry for the trouble you had with the Batch Child Editor module. I believe that was fixed a LONG time ago. The module is now up to version 1.6.13

Please consider installing the ProcessWire Upgrades module so you will be notified when there are updates to installed modules.

[afarmer]

Thanks for the suggestion! Again, all of the help here is appreciated. Have a wonderful day!