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Problem deleting Category from Dashboard

tjforsythetjforsythe New
edited March 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
I get the following error when I tried to use the dashboard to delete an existing category.

"You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'c from GDN_Comment c join GDN_Discussion d on c.DiscussionID = d.DiscussionID wh' at line 1|Gdn_Database|Query|delete GDN_Comment c from GDN_Comment c join GDN_Discussion d on c.DiscussionID = d.DiscussionID where d.CategoryID = :dCategoryID"

I am using the latest version Vanilla. There are no discussions in the category, so I unchecked the box to move them to another category. I also tried turning off special permissions so it uses the default roles and permissions. Is there another way to delete the category other than with brute force using phpmyadmin.

Comments

  • ffunnymanffunnyman
    Mine will allow deletion only when that box to move them is checked. Otherwise it errors out. I have not tried it without any discussions but if it does not work with the box checked you might have to add a discussion delete/move to a different cat and then delete the temp discussion.
  • tjforsythetjforsythe New
    I left the box checked and it deleted correctly.
  • arvindarvind New

    I have also same problem,
    If we unchecked the check box and delete the category then below error will be display.

    You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'c from GDN_Comment c join GDN_Discussion d on c.DiscussionID = d.DiscussionID wh' at line 1|Gdn_Database|Query|delete GDN_Comment c from GDN_Comment c join GDN_Discussion d on c.DiscussionID = d.DiscussionID where d.CategoryID = :dCategoryID

    Please advise me how to resolve it.
    many thanks in advance

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP
    edited May 2013

    This is a known issue. The category has to be empty to remove it.

    If you would like to remove multiple discussions at the same time, I would suggest enabling the Split/Merge plugin. I can confirm that this issue has been fixed in 2.1b1, but I don't suggest installing it in a production site.

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