Products kicked out of category on save

[AH]

Kicked out - is not what I think is happening here

Check the listing of the categories - I think you will find that current categories for the item along with the category drop list is empty!

Therefore on a save - it stores no setting for category.

Check console and see if any js errors or php errors

A fix was made to stop this happening i.e dont store "blank categories" if the category listing has failed to load.

[GJC Web Design]

have u gone through this post step by step trying the suggestions?
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=144464.0

[melsonmarketing]

Thanks for your replies.

I didn't check the thread suggested by GJC Web Design later.

Attached some screenshots that might make it clearer:

Screen1 shows, that the categories are there
Screen2 shows the problem to assign the product to the cat
Screen3 is (a part of) the category overview
Screen4a is a product before changes
Screen4b after saving changes - no category. (wasn't allowed to post)

[Jörgen]

Screenshots ?

Jörgen @ Kreativ Fotografi

[melsonmarketing]

Sorry Jörgen - missed to save.
Thanks for your hint

[Jörgen]

Inconsistent type for the dbase files ? Collation ?

How does the category Kleider look ? Published ?

Jörgen

[AH]

Looks like it is as I said

There are NO categories loaded on the product page which is the first issue

It looks like you have something in your setup that is causing issues - and GJC noted such things in the related article

One observation:
I reported categories being removed - this was due to the fast save issue and was resolved by the VM team. That issue is no longer causing any problems and has been working for some time.

So that leads to 2 questions:

1 - Why are your categories on the product page not getting loaded - what is your setup that results in this.
2 - Why is VM allowing a product save that is not detecting non loaded categories and thus allowing an "empty" category value to be stored.

[Studio 42]

Perhaps PHP max post size problem or something similar?
It's hard to say if you dont have all informations.

[GJC Web Design]

what do u see when u try the catlist url?

https://yoursite.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=product&type=getCategoriesTree&virtuemart_product_id=XXX&format=json&lang=de

should be a clean json representation of the cat options

[melsonmarketing]

Thank you all.

@ Jörgen: collation is okay and fixed with admintools, all categories in use are published

@ AH: you're right: On product-view level the categories are not being loaded

@ Studio 42: post_max_size is set to 64MB, memory_limit 256 MB - shouldn't be a problem as I have severeal working shops on the same server with the same setup

@ GJC WebDesign: Yep, that's working - try here: https://www.deko-gama.de

The problem occurs only on productview-level. At the moment we can fix it by using the mass assignment to categories function - but this is very frustrating work as it has to be done after each product edit...

Stay safe and have a nice weekend.

[GJC Web Design]

@ GJC WebDesign: Yep, that's working - try here: https://www.deko-gama.de

we cannot check this as u have to be logged in as an admin

but screenshot what returns

[melsonmarketing]

Ouch - sorry I missed the admin-part in tzhe URL :-(

But here's a screenshot - looks okay I think

[GJC Web Design]

yes-- looks fine

be aware that any php notices etc that are returned in the response will break the select .. so do this check on a live edit of a product