[rt-users] file: URL in Children field causes 'Can't call method "Id"' error in Display page

[Michael Brader]

Jesse wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:47:45PM -0600, Worsley, John wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> I can use any of the Links fields except Children, but the Children
>> field seems the most appropriate. The problem is, I put a file: URL
>> in the Children field, and when I'm on the ModifyLinks page
>> everything looks fine, but when I switch back to Display, the page
>> draws okay until it gets to the Links section, where it displays a
>> System Error in place of the Links section.  This does not occur
>> with any of the other Links fields.  I have pasted the error text
>> below.
>
> I'm almost certain that this was fixed for 3.4.5. But I'd probably
> use "Refers to" rather than children, myself.

This problem still occurs in 3.6.1 with non local URLs of any type. If
you copy share/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowMembers to
local/html/Ticket/Elements/ and apply the following patch, you should
be OK. I'm not sure whether this is the best way to do it, but it
works for us here.

--- local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowMembers.orig	2006-06-19 22:44:04.000000000 +0000
+++ local/html/Ticket/Elements/ShowMembers	2006-09-26 04:50:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -46,12 +46,18 @@
 % if ($members->Count) {
 <ul>
 % while (my $link = $members->Next) {
+% if ($link->LocalBase) {
 % my $member= $link->BaseObj;
 <li><a href="<%$RT::WebPath%>/Ticket/Display.html?id=<%$member->Id%>"><%$member->Id%></a>: <%$member->Subject%> [<%loc($member->Status)%>]<br />
 % if ($depth < 8) {
 <&/Ticket/Elements/ShowMembers, Ticket => $member, depth => ($depth+1) &> 
 % }
 % }
+% else {
+% my $url = $link->Base;
+<li><a href="<%$url%>"><%$url%></a><br />
+% }
+% }
 </ul>
 % }
 
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