Added: October/24/2008 at 4:58pm | IP Logged

Hi again,

We are experencing an issue where if we change a date on an ad, they seem to disappear.  The only way we can seem to get around this issue is by deleting the banners then recreating them.  Also we can't seem to clone banners either; the also disappear.  This only seems to happen when we use "Code" banners vs. "image" banenrs.  Let me know if there is a setting or something that needs changed in a config file somewhere.  Thanks.

Added: October/27/2008 at 8:30am | IP Logged

Hi,

I am going to tell you what we are doing step-by-step to see if you can reproduce the issue. 

First create a new banner with the following criteria.  Anything marked with a * indicates where we've noticed it doesn't really matter what value or type (as in admin vs. user account for instance) you put into the banner:

Banner User:  Admin *

Banner_type: code

banner_name: any *

banner_zone:  any *

banner weights: any*

Code Banner:

<!-- BEGIN STANDARD TAG - 468 x 60 - Fishsalmonriver.com: Run-of-site - DO NOT MODIFY -->
<IFRAME FRAMEBORDER=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 SCROLLING=NO WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 SRC=" http://ad.outsidehub.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=468x6 0&section=445044"></IFRAME >
<!-- END TAG -->

Status:  Active

Begin Date:  10/24/08

End Date:  10/24/2010

Save the banner.  The banenr will show up (in the admin interfaces), you can refresh and it will continue to appear, etc.  Put the calling code into an ASP or HTML page and it will work.  Now go into the admin interface and change the end date (or status or begin date) to 10/24/2009...it doesn't seem to matter, it will cause this issue to happen anyway.  Save the banner and try to look at it in the test page or in the admin interface, it no longer appears.  If we recreate the banners, set all the setting the way we want then leave them alone, everything seems to be OK, but we can't change anything ever or we lose functionality.

What is most frustrating is the fact that we aren't entirely sure where this issue is eminating from -- either ASPBanner or the company itself.  It makes it that much hard to debug.  Thanks again Chris.

J.R.

Added: October/30/2008 at 4:16pm | IP Logged

OK, here is an alternate version of the "edit_banner.asp" file..
Unzip this and put that file in the aspbanner folder..

2008-10-30_162233_edit_banneralt.zip

Then go (edit/save) a code banner that has "&section" in it a a few times and see if the code entered stays as it should.