Sidecar TV, Plugin Developers

mmtf – I happen to be working on DT now, so it’s handy you’re asking questions now ??

Thanks for moving this to it’s own thread. As well, thanks for all the details you gave re. WP and PHP versions.

First up – since you’re trying so many options, have you tried with no other plugins aside from DT and no customizations to your theme? Basically a perfectly vanilla WP install except DT. We’re heavily dependent on JavaScript so if another theme, plugin, widget or what ever has a JS error, our plugin will break.

If trying that is too laborious (it’s a lot to ask!), let us know and we’ll see how we can help another way.

mmtf – we’re happy to help! however, this thread is marked resolved already – can you open a new thread so we can better track this? (BTW – off the cuff I suspect a JavaScript error, but let’s see!)

Yes! We’re going to add this feature as well. In the meanwhile, you can cram html with links like this:

Google it!

In either your answer’s text (button) or subtext (text above the button).

jameswcaudill – I totally understand not wanting to recreate your DT! Though you can edit the DB (wp_postmeta – look for the field with meta_key “dtree_blob” and the DT contents therein), we store our trees as JSON which is tricky to edit manually. You’re welcome to try but, again, we don’t recommend it.

Sorry again!

jameswcaudill – oh! There was another user who reported the same problem, but we’d been unable to reproduce. The idea that the corruption happens when you’ve edited after a timeout (after your session expired and your logged out) is a new one! We’ll definitely look into this.

Unfortunately, we have no fix right now. You’ll have to recreate the Decision Tree from scratch ?? Sorry!

Thanks very much for taking the time to report this issue. We’ll leave it open as we research it.

jameswcaudill – ah, thanks for the suggestion about the drop down.

As well, glad to hear you found the css to update!

jameswcaudill – thanks for the update about Ultimate Posts. Sorry it didn’t work out for you. We’ll still look to add widget support in a future release.

Per you DT with 20 choices on the screen – do you have any input on how we could improve the layout for you? Would it help if we could reduce the size or put the choices in a grid?

Otherwise, may be you could break down the steps the so user only sees 2-5 choices at a time instead of 20?

Best of luck!

jameswcaudill – thanks for the question! Unfortunately Decision Tree does not currently natively support being rendered in a widget. I haven’t tried it, but you may be able to run a plugin which shows posts as widgets, like this one, to achieve your goal.

Otherwise, we’ll look to add this as a feature in the future!

wardmundy – Any updates? We’d love to know if you’re still using out plugin and if the corrupt JSON problem you reported has still been problematic.

Thanks!

wardmundy – Oh yeah, I can see that when you hover over the green button at the end, having your cursor change to the finger does strongly suggest it’s a link. Your trick of adding HTML in the answer is a good one. We’ll look to improve this in future versions.

thanks again for all your input, we really appreciate it!

JenniMcKay – I just used MultiPressDev to install all versions of WordPress:

https://github.com/Ths2-9Y-LqJt6/MultiPressDev

After installing our plugin in both 3.5 and 3.6, I was able to reproduce your error. So, indeed, sorry! Our docs say we support back to 3.0, but for now we only support back to 3.6. We’ll certainly fix our docs to say we only support 3.6 and later and we’ll also look to add support for earlier versions.

For now, your only option is up upgrade WordPress to at least 3.6 or later.

wardmundy – Thought I still agree there’s a problem with your tree, I’m unable to reproduce it using your data. I manually recreated your tree and went up to step 14 with no problem. Here’s the blob which you can insert into your DB to pick up where you left off:

{\"data\":{\"1\":{\"question\":\"Which operating system platform are your deploying?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"You must first install the operating system of your choice.\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"CentOS 6.5\",\"next\":\"4\"},{\"choice\":\"Ubuntu 14\",\"next\":\"9\"},{\"choice\":\"Raspbian 7 (Raspberry Pi 2)\",\"next\":\"12\"}]},\"4\":{\"question\":\"CentOS6.5: Which Asterisk version do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Asterisk 11 (LTS) Recommended\",\"next\":\"15\"},{\"choice\":\"Asterisk 11 (LTS) Recommended\",\"next\":\"24\"}]},\"9\":{\"question\":\"Ubuntu14: Which Asterisk version do your prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Asterisk 11 (LTS) Recommended\",\"next\":\"27\"},{\"choice\":\"Asterisk 12 (Support ends 12/31/2015)\",\"next\":\"31\"}]},\"12\":{\"question\":\"Raspbian7: Which Asterisk version do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Asterisk 11 (LTS) Recommended\",\"next\":\"34\"}]},\"15\":{\"question\":\"CentOS6.5/Asterisk11: Which GUI do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 11 (Stable)\",\"next\":\"40\"},{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 12 (Recommended)\",\"next\":\"40\"},{\"choice\":\"Asterisk-GUI (No longer supported)\",\"next\":\"40\"},{\"choice\":\"FreePBX 2.11\",\"next\":\"40\"},{\"choice\":\"FreePBX 12 (Proprietary)\",\"next\":\"40\"}]},\"21\":{\"question\":\"Raspbian 7/Raspberry Pi 2 Recommended Platform\",\"type\":\"answer\",\"subtext\":\"Visit <a href=\\\"https://nerdvittles.com/?p=13599\\\">https://nerdvittles.com/?p=13790</a> for download and tutorial.\",\"choices\":[]},\"24\":{\"question\":\"CentOS6.5/Asterisk12: Which GUI do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"FreePBX 12 (Proprietary)\",\"next\":\"40\"}]},\"27\":{\"question\":\"Ubuntu14/Asterisk11: Which GUI do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 11 (Stable)Incredible PBX GUI 11 (Stable)\",\"next\":\"21\"},{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 12 (Recommended)\",\"next\":\"21\"}]},\"31\":{\"question\":\"Ubuntu14/Asterisk12: Which GUI do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 12 (Recommended)\",\"next\":\"21\"},{\"choice\":\"FreePBX 12 (Proprietary)\",\"next\":\"21\"}]},\"34\":{\"question\":\"Raspbian7/Asterisk11: Which GUI do you prefer?\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"Incredible PBX GUI 12 (Recommended)\",\"next\":\"21\"},{\"choice\":\"Asterisk-GUI (No longer supported)\",\"next\":\"21\"}]},\"37\":{\"question\":\"CentOS6.5/Asterisk11/Asterisk-GUI Recommended Platform\",\"type\":\"answer\",\"subtext\":\"Visit <a href=\\\"https://nerdvittles.com/?p=11766\\\">https://nerdvittles.com/?p=11766</a> for download and tutorial.\",\"choices\":[]},\"40\":{\"question\":\"CentOS6.5/Asterisk11/IncredibleGUI Recommended Platform\",\"type\":\"answer\",\"subtext\":\"Visit <a href=\\\"https://nerdvittles.com/?p=13599\\\">https://nerdvittles.com/?p=13599</a> for download and tutorial.\",\"choices\":[]},\"43\":{\"question\":\"13th answer, is safe!\",\"type\":\"answer\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[]},\"54\":{\"question\":\"14th question pointing to 13 answer\",\"type\":\"question\",\"subtext\":\"\",\"choices\":[{\"choice\":\"12\",\"next\":\"43\"}]}},\"index\":{\"0\":\"1\",\"1\":\"4\",\"2\":\"9\",\"3\":\"12\",\"4\":\"15\",\"5\":\"21\",\"6\":\"24\",\"7\":\"27\",\"8\":\"31\",\"9\":\"34\",\"10\":\"37\",\"11\":\"40\",\"12\":\"43\",\"13\":\"54\"},\"start_ID\":\"1\",\"version\":\"1.1.0\"}

I manually compared the two trees and can see where the data is corrupt but, like I said, I’m still unable to see how the data would get into this munged state.

Though I’m marking this as “resolved”, please keep us up to date. If you find a way to reliably reproduce the problem, we’d really love to hear about it.

marking resolved.

sakiehl – Sorry, right now we don’t have a way doing this. We’re very happy for the suggestion though, thanks! We’ll add it to our list of feature requests of future versions.

Great – good to hear!