Wiki Troubleshooting Tips

Why is the left sidebar sliding to the bottom of the page?

If you ever save a page and then can't see the left-side navigation bar because it's slipped down somewhere under your desk, or it's showing up over on the right side of the page, the page probably has an unclosed <div ... </div> pair. If you didn't think you were using a div anywhere, look for a broken %TWISTY%. You must have an %ENDTWISTY% for every %TWISTY% (and vice versa).

Something is Weird and My Page isn't Displaying

Use Raw View to investigate. Add "raw=on" to the end of the URL in the Address bar.

Do you have a SEARCH that might be timing out or an INCLUDE that could be failing?

The Page Looks "Funny"?

If you're using IE, try Firefox. Sometimes buttons, images, and other Look&Feel elements do not display well in IE.

Why Don't The Dates Sort Properly in my table?

I have a table with dates in it and they don't sort properly. What can I do?

For sorting, the type of data in a table cell is determined automatically: date: dd-MMM-YY or dd-MMM-YYYY (you can use / or space in place of -) where MMM is the ISO 3-character abbreviation, e.g. 01-Jan-2008 number: digits, with optional decimal point otherwise: treated as text This means that 01 Jan 2008 is treated as a date, but 01 January 2008 is not treated as a date! (Yes, this can be considered a bug). Unfortunately, the default date format used by EDITTABLE spells out the full name of the month. Workaround Specify a sortable date format to EDITTABLE, as %EDITTABLE{format="|...| date,<size>, <initial value>, <format> | ...}% where format has a LOT of options but the most useful are probably these two: %Y-%m-%d e.g. 2008-05-09 %d %b %Y e.g. 01 Apr 2008

format=" text,20 | date | \ date,,,%d %b %Y | \ date,,,%Y-%m-%d | Click the header to sort by that column Name Date 1 Date 2 Date 3 New Year's Day 1 January 2008 1 Jan 2008 2008-01-01 MLK Day 21 January 2008 21 Jan 2008 2008-01-21 Christmas Day 25 December 2008 25 Dec 2008 2008-12-25 Independence Day 4 July 2008 4 Jul 2008 2008-07-04 Memorial Day 26 May 2008 26 May 2008 2008-05-26 Labor Day 1 September 2008 1 Sep 2008 2008-09-01 Thanksgiving Day 27 November 2008 27 Nov 2008 2008-11-27 Mother's Day 11 May 2008 11 May 2008 2008-05-11 Father's Day 15 June 2008 15 Jun 2008 2008-06-15 Spring Equinox 20 March 2008 20 Mar 2008 2008-03-20

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