All of a sudden I'm getting a "Message body field is mandatory" error when posting with attachments.

I'm posting a message in a forum that allows HTML and also attaching a file to the same message (in this case a 48k JPG).

All my text is surrounded by HTML and when I click "Post Now" the error appears.

To test, I removed the HTML and put regular text in there, again with the same attachment and it still barfed!

Then I left off the attachment and everything worked fine!

So the issue seems to be with attachments - I double checked the forum settings and everything is in order. I didn't try it in other forums, just the one. Registered users are only allowed to post attachments, and I am obviously one of those!

Any ideas?

This might be a javascript bug where when you add an attachment it doesnt submit the message body with the forum... Could you please put in a ticket so we can track this one down?

Thanks.

Jonmark Weber
Technology Group
Infopop Corporation

Thanks Jonmark....just opened a ticket for you

This is not a javascript bug.

There have been some intermittent reports of attachments failing in this way but we haven't been able to reproduce the problem.

David - when this happens please do a 'view source' and look for the word 'servlet' right near the top.

It will look something like this

!-- servlet tse001Shang OpenTopic 3.0.6 using standard XSL for board_topic

Please copy it to the ticket you opened with Jonmark. This will help up pinpoint whether one particular servlet is involved.

Michael Farris
Infopop Product Evangelist

Thanks and will do Michael.