Lost Homepage Data
 

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
I have just been amending my homepage in webmaster mode - nothing major just a few words etc.
Pressed 'save'. It took ages to save and then when it updated it had lost all of the data from main body of the page. I am left with header, side columns and featured products.

I have 2 labels above featured products that I know where there before.

lbl_welcome_to
and
txt_welcome.

What I do not know how to do is re-install the main body of the page. I have the data elsewhere but where do I insert it in webmaster mode? There must be a special tab / label but I do not know how to create it.

Any help please?

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

use an ftp editor, or download the file, correct and reupload. Much better than trying to edit in webmaster mode.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

Thank you for the reply. I do use Dreamweaver and have the old data stored in there but I need to get webmaster mode back to looking the same as DW for others to use.

I just don't know how to insert the coding. I can not get the pop-up box that lets you input using code / wysiwyg options. Obviously the system has deleted the 'box' I use.
I knew something was wrong as when I updated the html code only some of the amendments went live so webmaster mode was showing the new info but the live webpages were only showing some of the new info.
That was odd so I was tweaking webmaster mode again before i updated html again and that is when the save button lost the data.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

so were you editing a file or a language variable?

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

I am no programmer (you may have noticed) so to put it in my language.....
In webmaster mode I click on 'open window' and the homepage appears.
I then normally click on the main body of the test (the bit I want to amend) and a pop-up box appears (called edit label I think) and it gives the option of amending details using a default editor or a wysiwyg editor.

As I no longer have a 'body of text' in my homepage I can not click to get this pop-up box and i do not know how to create one and install it into the page.

I still do not know why all the info was deleted when I pressed 'save'.

Thank you for your help.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

sounds like you were editing a language variable, and now it's blank. You'll have to try to work out which one it should be and edit it in the language adrea in the admin

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

I am half way going through all the text language viables and it is slow work!
Is there a 'default' filter name that always used by web designers for this facility on the homepage e.g. I have seen txt_about for the about us page.
Thanks.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

moving to template editing.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

Do you know/remember what it was that you were editing before you "lost" it?

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

I was just amending a few words of text from the main middle section of the homepage. I was using the pop-up box that lets you amend in either default editor or wysiwyg mode.
I pressed saved, it seemed to freeze for ages then lost all the data from that section including the pop-up box facility.

I can show you the code that is currently in webmaster mode for the homepage but I am still trying to find out how to re-insert an 'edit label' to the page so that I can add all the missing coding.
Thank you.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

use teh language section in the admin to change language varaibles. webmaster mode is sometimes unreliable.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

You were probably editing the welcome text.

search language variables for this.

{$lng.txt_welcome}

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

Are you saying the "edit label" popup is gone for all instances where you can edit, or just the specific one you were editing?

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

Hi, anyone ever told you - you are brilliant??!!

Many thanks for your help. I had looked at the various labels and text etc but of course the welcome one was showing blank (as all the info had been deleted) so I did not realise that was the one I needed to use.
Back to normal now - really appreciate your help.
Just need someone to explain in one syllables how to amend and update security patches and I will be a happy bunny!

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

HI Chris,
I Have just had more or less exactly the same happen to me, and have not a scooby how to fix it. I have put a post in to explain it.
http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=51139

Have you got anywhere with the issue?

Thanks
Paul

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

Hi, My problem was solved by Ashley. I needed to re-insert all the info into the welcome text label situated in languages.
I was able to do this quickly as I could copy the info needed from my Dreamweaver index (homepage) files.
Hope this helps you.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

thats what i dont understand, i only have edit langages, defalt or update launguages options in lanuhuages is this where you mean?
thannks for replying
paul

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

In my version (4.1.9) I go into languages / edit languages and select 'english'.
I can then either select a topic (labels, text, modutes etc) or apply filter (i.e. a search facility if I know what I am looking for like the 'welcome' box).
Then the relevant box that I need to amend appears.
Sorry I can't help further as I do things 'parrot-fashion'. Hopefully someone can add some more info so you can access the sections you need.

Re: Lost Homepage Data
 

HI Chris,

All sorted now, I had the notion to read the relevant part of the manual and that put together with what I had read here allowed me to do the fix. Luckily before I lost the text in the box I had copied it over into dreamweaver. SO now am going to do all editing in it the copy script into the relevant laungage box.

Thanks for your help! Panic over!

PAul