campaign creation not working

[aschweigert]

From the dashboard, click "New Campaign"

In the past a campaign and variant ID would have been automatically assigned but now they're empty, as are the text fields at the bottom that were previously populated by the default widget copy.

If you attempt to save a new campaign you'll get an error that says "Mongo has already been taken"

[lisawilliams]

Thanks for putting this up, Adam. Justin, one of our members, Naomi Schwartz of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, wants to put up a campaign on Monday. Can we do this?

[searls]

I have a deployed a fix to the validation error preventing you from creating a new campaign.

Would you mind attempting to create one and seeing if it works? Let me know when you do so that I can compare it in the database versus other campaigns and make sure everything looks right.

As for the campaign & variant ID stuff showing up right away on the new form and default text being filled in, I can't seem to replicate what you're describing 😕

[lisawilliams]

Will do! Thank you, Justin! On Jul 31, 2014 5:49 PM, "Justin Searls" notifications@github.com wrote:

I have a deployed a fix to the validation error preventing you from creating a new campaign.

Would you mind attempting to create one and seeing if it works? Let me know when you do so that I can compare it in the database versus other campaigns and make sure everything looks right.

As for the campaign & variant ID stuff showing up right away on the new form and default text being filled in, I can't seem to replicate what you're describing 😕

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/testdouble/impaq-me/issues/116#issuecomment-50823682.

[searls]

Ah, I think I've figured out what you're saying about both IDs and widget copy and I think I have some answers:

• On the new form, the IDs and variant stuff is blank until the campaign is initially saved. Fear not, once it's initially saved, it will show up and you'll see the new variant button when you go back into it via the Edit link.
• I changed the behavior of the widget copy intentionally. What I found when spelunking through the data is that all but maybe 1 of the campaigns used the default widget copy and, as a result, inadvertently copied the same default widget copy to Mongo over and over again. This was really brittle because if we had changed those defaults, all of our campaigns would start rendering "the old way". If you want to enter in a custom value for any of the widget properties but you want to reference the defaults, you can just check them out at this link here: https://github.com/testdouble/impaq-me/blob/master/app/models/variant.rb#L38-L43