"Template to Use" doesn't show all available pages

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Hi there. I’m returning to XWiki use after several years away. Glad to be back… it’s obvious that a lot of work has gone into the platform.

As an administrator, I’m trying to create a template provider. When I create the provider, not all pages are listed in the dropdown box. I simply get a suggested name based on the provider name, and the pages from the Help section:

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Does anyone know how to resolve this? The Administration guide indicates I should be able to choose a page I’ve created, or one that already existed.

Thanks in advance!

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Welcome back :wave:

I’ve tested it and it works fine for me:

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I can only think of 2 possibilities:

  • The page with reference XWiki.MyTestTemplate doesn’t exist
  • The page exists but it’s marked hidden and your user isn’t configured to display hidden pages

I’m leaning towards the second option. Could you check?

Note that I think we should probably improve this and force listing hidden pages in this picker since it’s a technical picker and it’s good that template pages are hidden.

Also note that if the template page is hidden you might hit Loading...

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I don’t think that’s the cause. The first problem is that I only see pages listed from Help as possible templates to choose from. Your example shows Sandbox pages, etc. I suspect my problem is related to this filtering.

The page is definitely there and active. I’ll see about capturing a recording that demonstrates what I’m seeing.

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See if you can view this. It illustrates both how my drop down is limited to Help pages, and how I am able to reproduce the exception:

Thanks so much for your assistance!

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Btw, that “Server not responding” error happens each and every time I try “Save & View”. “Save” always seems to work.

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The user account didn’t have the preference to show hidden pages, so you were right about that. However, the page isn’t hidden. Now, after setting it to show hidden pages, I only see the default template name and AnnotationCode.

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Even if I go and edit one of the existing templates, I still only see pages from the Help section (I turned show hidden back off, so it no longer shows Annotation Code):

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Ok, only displaying Help pages was a false alarm. If I erase everything out of the search and start typing, I can see others.

However, selecting any page still causes me to get:


Detailed information:
    Error number 11001 in 3: Template document xwiki:Sandbox.Test2 does not exist when adding to document WebHome
com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 11001 in 3: Template document xwiki:Sandbox.Test2 does not exist when adding to document WebHome
	at com.xpn.xwiki.doc.XWikiDocument.readFromTemplate(XWikiDocument.java:4506)
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Well, finally a solution. If I delete the found page in the dropdown box and manually type its name with .WebHome at the end, it works.

I found this here: Template document ... does not exist when adding to document WebHome

Not sure why the dropdown would list the page in a way that would cause an uncaught exception like this, but oh well…

I appreciate your willingness to help @vmassol !