New pages defaulting to Website Root not Regular (2.11.4)

[vincent]

Last week I upgraded three seperate installations of Contao to v.2.11.4 (two from 2.10, the third from 2.7).

Since the upgrade, when one creates a new page (via Site Tree) immediately inside a Website root, the default selection for page type is incorrectly pre-selected "Website root". Prior to the upgrade the default page type for the first internal page was "Regular page"; as it should be.

Note: In all three cases, Contao is serving multiple websites, so website roots do already exist. New pages are being created beneath a pre-existing website root.

For Administrative-level users, this mis-selection is a minor nuisance since the field value can be changed. For site editors with lesser privileges, it's truly problematic. Furthermore, when building a site from nothing--adding the very first page--the problem is crippling: User clicks through to create a new page, but instead of the customary form, they receive a non-descript message: "An error has occurred".

System log says:

[2012-06-25 10:02] Not enough permissions to edit page ID 236 or paste after/into page ID 227
[2012-06-25 10:02] Not enough permissions to edit root pages

(Note that permissions were sufficient before the upgrade.)

I tracked down the page type selection default in /system/modules/backend/tl_page.php: It is "regular".

And for good measure, I added the following line to /system/config/dcaconfig.php. (It had no affect, btw.)

$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['tl_page']['fields']['type']['default'] = 'regular';

Steps to reproduce:

-- Layout > Site Structure > New Page action
-- Paste new page into an existing website root
-- As Administrator: Page type field incorrectly indicates "Website root"
-- As non-Administrator user: Aforementioned error message and system log record

(Non-administrator users are not permitted to create new Website Roots; however, they should be able to create pages inside a root without incident.)


Thoughts anyone?

I have two more upgrades scheduled for the coming week which will impact 150+ websites, but am reluctant to do so until this Website root vs Regular page mystery is resolved.


Thanks in advance for your help folks!

--V

[thyon]

You can for now replace this with a dcaconfig.php setting to change the default to something else.

$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['tl_page']['fields']['type']['default'] = 'regular';

[vincent]

You can for now replace this with a dcaconfig.php setting to change the default to something else.

$GLOBALS['TL_DCA']['tl_page']['fields']['type']['default'] = 'regular';

Yep, as a stop-gap measure, I had already tried adding that line to "dcaconfig.php. Unfortunately, it did not make a difference--the default value remained Website Root anyway.

[ramjet]

Have you tested this in demo.contao.org and ticketed this?
Maybe you need to.

I can confirm this happens (when pasting immediately into a website root) in my 2.11.4 install.

[vincent]

Have you tested this in demo.contao.org and ticketed this?
Maybe you need to.

I can confirm this happens (when pasting immediately into a website root) in my 2.11.4 install.

Done, done and done!

Tested @ demo.contao.org, confirmed incorrect behavior, and ticketed (#4507).