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Making Error Pages a little less scary
September 30, 2007, 05:10:52 pm
I want to make some of the CiviCRM error pages that show up on the front end of Joomla! a little less wild looking to users.  :)

For example, when a user's session is ended because of inactivity, but a menu link to a registered user only link to civicrm is still showing and is clicked, an error message shows that is not really understandable to users (but all we really need is: You need to log back in).

Where would be the best place to change this? In the error.tpl file? Or some place more specific?



 

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Re: Making Error Pages a little less scary
September 30, 2007, 06:03:02 pm

Elin:

yes error.tpl is the main file and is used for all fatal error messages. Its a smarty template, so you can add conditional logic if needed. IMO, the below issue is more a Joomla issue and an expired session should be dealt at the CMS level rather than the module/component level.

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Re: Making Error Pages a little less scary
October 04, 2007, 08:22:10 am
Yeah, it is definitely a general issue within joomla!  (it's just that civicrm returns its own error rather than use the 500 template.

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Re: Making Error Pages a little less scary
October 04, 2007, 09:08:26 am
Please post your non scary error page... I suspect CiviCRM in general could use a slightly more warm and fuzzy error page for users.
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