Using Attributes: manual chapter feedback and discussion

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Feedback on the following chapter: https://www.phplist.org/manual/ch016_user-attributes.xhtml

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I am receiving the following error message when I try to edit user attributes and cannot find any troubleshooting information in the documentation – please direct me to the necessary instructions. Thanks.

Error: You do not have sufficient access

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Hi, are you super-admin or just admin?

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I have been using phplist for over 10 years and did not realize there is a difference … would you be so kind as to point me to a link where I can set myself up as a super-admin? There is only one admin and I am the only person using the system.

Thanks for your super-quick reply!

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Sounds like you are already super-admin to me. You can create sub-admins but they can’t share lists etc. The best thing is for you to make a new support thread and describe the issue there, the manual doesn’t really deal with these complex individual issues.Best

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fyi, looks like all the images on this documentation page are broken. ie:

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@maltfield Thanks for reporting – how did you navigate to that URL? I don’t recognise the PhplistHacks.html part, and when I click the link it shows the homepage and not where the missing image should be or a 404.

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sorry, it’s on this page:

Edit: hmm…looks fine on this page:

I guess google brought me to the PhplistHacks.html page. What is that clone?

Edit2: Guess it’s near-infinite:

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@maltfield That’s strange; looks like the Apache mod_rewrite rules are too lenient; I’ll look into it

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I have a true/false attribute, when i sync my membership database records with 0 are not updated to the value in the import file.

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@PaulRoberts Do you mean a “checkbox” attribute? There seems to be a problem with importing any attribute value that php treats as false. Try making this change to file lists/admin/actions/import2.php

line 103 should be

            if (!empty($values[$val['index']])) {

replace by

            if (isset($values[$val['index']])) {
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Thanks the change made no difference.

I have an attribute value ‘Member’ which is 1 or 0 in a tab delimited file from an export from an MS access database for club membership.

If it is 1 it is imported and updated, if zero it is not the attribute is listed under Summary but not under Test output and the values are not updated.

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@PaulRoberts Yes, the test output doesn’t show the field when the value is 0 but the subscriber record was updated in my test.
Before importing the subscriber profile showed

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Then after importing
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The Subscription tab of the Subscriber profile doesn’t always show the change though.