Tokenlist Issue After Update

[MGWben]

So I am not positive which Miva update I noticed this after, but when trying to View All Toekns (Tokenlist) of a given page, I am met with a compile error similar to this:

{ "success": 0, "error_code": "MER-UTIL-TKNL-00021", "error_message": "JSON_Save_Template_Source_To_Temporary_File: Function miva_template_compile Failed with error At 135:105-135:109 - syntax error, unexpected IDENTIFIER, expecting \u0027\u003E\u0027 on file: ctgy.mvc" }

Looking into the error location, it seems to be hitting a compilation error with code like this:

<a href=/"&mvt:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1;/"<mvt:if expr="'.pdf' CIN l.settings:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1"> target=/"_blank/"</mvt:if>>&mvt:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1_text;</a>

Where there is an "if" statement within an HTML tag to add additional attributes, classes, checked, etc.

The initial View All Toekns error like this was on our OSEL page; I replaced the mid-HTML-tag IF with an IF/ELSE to write a full tag depending. This cleared the OSEL page of any 'errors' but this noted the same kind of compiling error on a different page.

The page I am trying to View All Tokens is a waitlist email template - not associated with OSEL, BASK, CTGY, etc. but still throws an error citing these pages. The above error for the CTGY page is a great example as this page has not changed for the longest time; it has always had this mid-HTML-tag MVT markup in it.

So did something change that Miva no longer likes this structure? Is there a different way to define HTML tag attributes using a MVT:IF without the longer IF/ELSE method? They pages work fine on their own client-side, but the View All Tokens process does not like it.

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

AFAIK: View All Tokens requires:

1) ALL templates to be recompiled, not just the ones you are looking at
2) uses a different compiler which is much stricter and compiles them differently to display the end resulting page (hence the weird "\u0027\u003E\u0027" error string--that's JSON encoded characters)

So, i've learned not to use coding forms like class="this <mvt:if>something</mvt:if>"

Instead, you can do as what you did, OR, do something like

<mvt:if expr="condition">
<mvt:assign name="l.settings:pm:this_value" value="' target="_blank" '"/>
</mvt:if>

then just use &mvt:pm:this_value; in the HTML. If the condition is not true, it will just be blank.

[MGWben]

Hey Bruce - PhosphorMedia, thanks for the info! I'll have to update quite a few pages then to make Tokenlist happy :(

I was afraid that would be the case - so I guess there was some sort of update to the way View All Tokens complies? Like I mentioned, it had never done this before then abruptly changed to this more strict check.

[Kent Multer]

I noticed that, in your code sample, there is a slash character right after the equal sign at the beginning of the <a> tag. I don't know if that's just a typing error in your forum post? If your actual template code contains the same error, you should probably fix that and try again.

[MGWben]

Hey Kent Multer, good eye. That was a typo for the forum. I was playing around with escaping quotes in Miva to see if that may have done the trick and it looks like I pasted the wrong line of code in my initial question. The <a> line of code is:

<a href="&mvt:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1;"<mvt:if expr="'.pdf' CIN l.settings:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1"> target="_blank"</mvt:if>>&mvt:category:cf:ctgy_pdf1_text;</a>