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Hi Everyone,

I have a theme in for approval at the minute and the PRB has said it would benefit from having Full Content Swap enabled.

I've followed the instructions that I can find, and the final step says there'll be trial & error required to get the content swap working. I've trialled & errored for about a week now with no luck. This is the smallest error I'm seeing in the current draft. I don't know what else to try.

Call to a member function getRootTreeNodeObject() on null

I'm more a front end & design theme developer so a lot of the XML stuff is over my head. Can anyone suggest where I might be going wrong? I've been getting the same error with 5.7.4.2 & 5.7.5.2

Thanks
Steve

Steevb replied on Sep 20, 2015 at 6:01 pm Permalink Reply

Have you tried the sample generator?

https://github.com/concrete5/addon_sample_content_generator/tree/5.7...

C5ThemeTeam replied on Sep 20, 2015 at 6:21 pm Permalink Reply

Hi Steevb

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I used this tool to package up all my uploaded images and then generate the content.xml file.

I'm struggling to work out what I need to pull out of this generated file to get rid of errors.

rge replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 3:07 am Permalink Reply

Hello,

When using the generator to create the XML I received an error as well. The problem was an error in one of my custom blocks. It was hard to find since the block it self did not trow an error.

I tested it by doing a clean install without any blocks installed. I got no error when than I started adding my custom blocks one by one.

What you can try is make a second install without custom blocks (if you have any) and than run the generator to see if it is error free.

C5ThemeTeam replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 6:58 am Permalink Reply

Hi,

I don't have any custom blocks but I have custom templates applied to images. Might this be whats causing the error?

rge replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 7:13 am Permalink Best Answer Reply

I don't think so. Regarding to the xml. As noted in the documentation make sure you only add your own content and don't overwrite content from the dashboard etc. In the attachment you can find a small example.

In the xml look for your own content you can need the following tags:
themes
pagetemplates
pages
stacks

Example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<concrete5-cif version="1.0">
  <themes>
    <theme handle="package_name" package="package_name" activated="1"></theme>
  </themes>
  <pagetemplates>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Blog" handle="blog" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Blog Entry" handle="blog_entry" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Full" handle="full" package="" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Home" handle="home" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
  </pagetemplates>
    <pages>
    <page name="Home" path="" filename="" pagetype="" template="home" user="admin" description="" package="">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<concrete5-cif version="1.0">
 
 
  <themes>
    <theme handle="package_name" package="package_name" activated="1"></theme>
  </themes>
 
  <pagetemplates>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Blog" handle="blog" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Blog Entry" handle="blog_entry" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Full" handle="full" package="" internal=""></pagetemplate>
    <pagetemplate icon="full.png" name="Home" handle="home" package="package_name" internal=""></pagetemplate>
  </pagetemplates>
 
    <pages>
    <page name="Home" path="" filename="" pagetype="" template="home" user="admin" description="" package="">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
      <area name="Page Footer">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
      <area name="main-content">
        <blocks>
          <block type="core_area_layout" name="">
            <arealayout type="theme-grid" columns="12">
              <columns>
                <column span="3" offset="0">
                  <block type="feature" name="" custom-template="circle">
                    <data table="btFeature">
                      <record>
                        <icon><![CDATA[tablet]]></icon>
                        <title><![CDATA[Responsive Design]]></title>
                        <paragraph><![CDATA[<p>Some text.</p>]]></paragraph>
                        <externalLink><![CDATA[]]></externalLink>
                        <internalLinkCID></internalLinkCID>
                      </record>
                    </data>
                  </block>
                </column>
                <column span="3" offset="0">
                  <block type="feature" name="" custom-template="circle">
                    <data table="btFeature">
                      <record>
                        <icon><![CDATA[cubes]]></icon>
                        <title><![CDATA[Custom Blocks]]></title>
                        <paragraph><![CDATA[<p>Some text.</p>]]></paragraph>
                        <externalLink><![CDATA[]]></externalLink>
                        <internalLinkCID></internalLinkCID>
                      </record>
                    </data>
                  </block>
                </column>
                <column span="3" offset="0">
                  <block type="feature" name="" custom-template="circle">
                    <data table="btFeature">
                      <record>
                        <icon><![CDATA[database]]></icon>
                        <title><![CDATA[Hosting]]></title>
                        <paragraph><![CDATA[<p>lorem.</p>]]></paragraph>
                        <externalLink><![CDATA[]]></externalLink>
                        <internalLinkCID></internalLinkCID>
                      </record>
                    </data>
                  </block>
                </column>
                <column span="3" offset="0">
                  <block type="feature" name="" custom-template="circle">
                    <data table="btFeature">
                      <record>
                        <icon><![CDATA[star]]></icon>
                        <title><![CDATA[Support]]></title>
                        <paragraph><![CDATA[<p>Need some help? We can assist in building your site and make sure you stay up-to-date.</p>]]></paragraph>
                        <externalLink><![CDATA[]]></externalLink>
                        <internalLinkCID></internalLinkCID>
                      </record>
                    </data>
                  </block>
                </column>
              </columns>
            </arealayout>
          </block>
        </blocks>
      </area>
    </page>
 
  </pages>
 
  <stacks>
    <stack name="brand" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="Footer Contact" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="Footer Legal" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="Footer Navigation" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="footer-col1" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks>
          <block type="content" name="">
            <data table="btContentLocal">
              <record>
                <content><![CDATA[<p>Cras justo odio, dapibus ac facilisis in, egestas eget quam. Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit amet non magna. Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum.  </p>  <p>Fabio vel iudice vincam, sunt in culpa qui officia. Morbi odio eros, volutpat ut pharetra vitae, lobortis sed nibh.<br>  </p>]]></content>
              </record>
            </data>
          </block>
        </blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="footer-col2" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="footer-col3" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks>
          <block type="content" name="">
            <data table="btContentLocal">
              <record>
                <content><![CDATA[<p>Adress<br>Streetname 10, 1234AB City<br>T 012 - 456 789 91  </p>]]></content>
              </record>
            </data>
          </block>
        </blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="Header Navigation" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="Header Site Title" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks></blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
    <stack name="site navigation" type="global_area">
      <area name="Main">
        <blocks>
          <block type="autonav" name="" custom-template="bootstrap">
            <data table="btNavigation">
              <record>
                <orderBy><![CDATA[display_asc]]></orderBy>
                <displayPages><![CDATA[top]]></displayPages>
                <displayPagesCID></displayPagesCID>
                <displayPagesIncludeSelf><![CDATA[0]]></displayPagesIncludeSelf>
                <displaySubPages><![CDATA[none]]></displaySubPages>
                <displaySubPageLevels><![CDATA[enough]]></displaySubPageLevels>
                <displaySubPageLevelsNum><![CDATA[0]]></displaySubPageLevelsNum>
                <displayUnavailablePages><![CDATA[0]]></displayUnavailablePages>
              </record>
            </data>
          </block>
        </blocks>
      </area>
    </stack>
  </stacks>
 
  </concrete5-cif>

C5ThemeTeam replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 8:10 am Permalink Reply

Great. I'll try this later today.

I'm not looking at my XML file now but I do remember having a

<package>

in there.

Should I delete this also?

Thanks
Steve

rge replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 8:25 am Permalink Reply

Only included things that you have added in the theme. So if you have installed a package in your theme than add it in the xml. Otherwise you can leave it out.

Also in the pages tag make sure you only add the thinks you have added. Your pages and your content.

An other xml example can be found in the core of concrete:
concrete/config/install/packages/elemental_full/content.xml

C5ThemeTeam replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 8:36 am Permalink Reply

Thanks a million for the advice. Will give this my full attention later and report back.

I was going to use the Elemental theme as a template but when it wasn't part of a package I thought against it.

Thank you again.

C5ThemeTeam replied on Sep 21, 2015 at 4:18 pm Permalink Reply

This worked perfectly, first time. These instructions should really be added into the guidelines in the official docs imho.

Thanks for the help.

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