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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 06, 2013 @ 13:44
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    Errors in some pages in new installation of Umbraco 7

    I've done a fresh install of Umbraco 7 and have applied the standard website starter kit to it.

    Some pages are ok but on others I get the following message

    Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

    the offending line of code is

    var nodeIds = Model.GetPropertyValue<string>("contentPanels").Split(',');

    Is this a bug in v7 or is the starter kit using discontinued features - Can anyone help ? thanks

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  • Rasmus Trumf 78 posts 160 karma points
    Dec 14, 2013 @ 23:00
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    Its because you havent created a contentpanel for the specific page you are trying to open. Create a contentpanel or nest the code in a try catch...

    Rasmus

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  • Rasmus Trumf 78 posts 160 karma points
    Dec 16, 2013 @ 20:31
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    or even better contain it in: if (Model.Content.HasProperty("contentPanels"))

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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:44
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    Thanks for the tips Rasmus.

    This is with the "out of the box" installation of the basic website starter kit package which worked fine when installed on v6

    So I guess that package isn't yet fully compatible with v7

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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 17, 2013 @ 18:57
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    I just installed the standard website starter kit using v 7.0.1 and it's now up and running and seems to be ok

    The differences apart from using 7.0.1 instead of 7.0  were installing through web matrix on a different machine, and using SQL CE

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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 17, 2013 @ 19:41
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    I spoke too soon. Although the website now runs ok, If I try and create a new page I get

    Server error: Contact administrator, see log for full details.
    Failed to retreive data for empty content item type Standard 

    The standard document type is there but I don't know enough about Umbraco yet to work out what's wrong with it...

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  • Rasmus Trumf 78 posts 160 karma points
    Dec 17, 2013 @ 20:00
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    I made a fresh install with 7.0.1 and created the documenttypes and properties etc. manually. I have a pretty good site running now, without the package installed. I also had another site with the package to compare with. My advice is to make another site and create what you need manually...

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  • Rasmus Trumf 78 posts 160 karma points
    Dec 17, 2013 @ 20:01
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    that will also give you a good insight in how Umbraco actually works ;-)

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  • Rasmus Trumf 78 posts 160 karma points
    Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:48
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    Hello,

    This package is not compatible with U7. As I said before, build it manually again or wait until the package is updated. I guess this could take some time though, because U7 is a complete new build and a lot is rewritten.

    Could you please mark a post as the solution if it helped you.

    Rasmus

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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:54
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    Hi Rasmus. Yes I sort of come to that conclusion already. Shame as this starter kit was a really good way of getting a site that meets our requirement up and running quickly and I used it to sell Umbraco to the organisation. I guess it shouldn't take too long to re-create once I know what I'm doing though 

    Out of interest did you create your version using exactly the same Document types/names as the starter kit? I noticed some tutorials and newer starter kits use "text page" doc type (or something similar) and wondered if that was a de-facto standard?

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  • Per Ploug 865 posts 3491 karma points MVP admin
    Dec 18, 2013 @ 13:17
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    What starterkit is this? - website implementations shouldnt change between v6 and v7 - so templates, macros etc that work in V6 should also work in V7

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  • Graeme W 113 posts 289 karma points
    Dec 18, 2013 @ 13:21
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    This is the one....

    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/starter-kits/standard-website-mvc

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