Upgraded site with a few glitches.

My site was not actually at 7.1.0 as I had applied some fixes.  I ran the 7.1.1 upgrade without any errors being reported.  That was good.  However, I have a few problems; such as my promo missing from the homepage and when you are on the profile page there is no member menu bar.  My site has a lot of modifications to it with several modules that require editing the core files.  I will have to check again to see if I missed something when applying my changes to the upgrade files.  I intend to do this each time by downloading the files from the server and comparing changes.  It should get easier each time.

Anyone know why the member menu bar would disappear on the profile page after the upgrade?  It appears on all other pages; just not the profile page.  Also, noticed the video block on the profile, the profile video block, is broken; the block is short in height but the video is there and extends down out of the block.  All other blocks appear fine and they use the same designbox, correct?

I am redoing the test site with a known good backup of the production site and will first verify that the member menu is present in the profile and then apply the upgrade and see what happens.

Why did no one answer you?  You are active here in this community and help others - or is that a different Geek Girl?   I don't know about the menu but I hate that they took away that homepage promo.  Am I missing something?  I thought you had upgraded long ago. 

Because they had no clue as to why and also maybe did not want to guess and look foolish; I have looked foolish in the forums many times LOL.

I did some fixes manually, including databases.  However, the upgrades and fixes came so rapidly that I could not do it manually and I got behind.  Therefore, I am trying to upgrade the site to 7.1.4 using the upgrades.  Of course I am testing on the test site; a clone of the production site.  The first upgrade appears OK outside of the two glitches I mentioned.

The PROMO block may have disappeared because I may have forgotten to include the new designbox I made for it; to change the designbox for the PROMO block you have to do it in the code.  I made a new design box so that the promo basically is not in a block that you can see; the designbox has no header and no borders and is set as wide as the page so that I can use the promo block as a splash page.

As with any site that makes a bunch of custom changes to files, I didn't answer because I don't know the answer. It's possible there's an error on the page that prevents the member menu from loading, but we'd need the URL to check.

The glitches are still present.  Why would the profile videos block be broken and not other blocks using the exact same designbox?  Must be the video player added to that block?  And the profile page still is lacking the member menu bar; which loads on all other pages; I did not think the upgrade 7.1.1 did anything with the profile page.

I did see this:

Timestamp: 10/24/2013 3:16:03 PM
Error: Error: cannot call methods on sortable prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'destroy'
Source File: /gzip_loader.php?file=bx_templ_js_a53cb5b420750a0537a0fed05e1f83b7.js
Line: 5

Looks like you may have js caching/compression on.

If you recall, i have pointed out in the past that the js compression feature can be a problem. In some cases dolphin will not work properly with that turned on.

So, try turning it off then manually empty the cache, and cache_public folders and leave it off and try again.

Yes, I knew about the js and I thought it was turned off.  However, checking both the production site and the test site showed them turned on.  However, turning them off and clearing caches did not solve the missing member menu bar in the profile.

However, it did allow proper identification of the error file:

Timestamp: 10/24/2013 3:51:03 PM
Error: Error: cannot call methods on sortable prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'destroy'
Source File: /plugins/jquery/jquery.js
Line: 3

Looking at the ugrade; it appears that all the jquery files were replaced.

Now I am using the Profile Composer mod from the market, and that uses jquery to allow members to reposition the blocks on the profile page.  Looking at that, I see that the ability to move the blocks around on the page is not working.  I will need to go back and examine the changes that were required by that module; and perhaps look and see if an upgrade of that module is needed as well for 7.1.1.

It is the BxBaseProfileView.php file; that was changed in Dolphin 7.1.1.  Putting the old file back resulted in the issues going away including Profile Composer now working; so need to look and see what was changed and why it is causing the issues.

I put the upgrade version back in place expecting to the see the member menu bar disappear but it does not.  Furthermore, the Profile Composer is working.  Yes, I cleared caches.  ????

Going to a different browser and the member menu bar loads; so it must have been something changed on the site and not just local caching.

Anyone can explain this?

I think the issue is related to the Profile Composer Module.  So I guess before doing an upgrade I should first upgrade the modules I am using.