News App - Navigation UI broken

[leogaggl]

Latest Official Nextcloud Docker Image

Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.5): 28.0.0
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Docker on Ubuntu 22.04LTS
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache/2.4.57 (Debian)
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 8.2.13

Database: Type: pgsql

Version: PostgreSQL 14.6 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44), 64-bit

The issue you are facing:

News App - Navigation UI broken (see attached screenshot)

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Y

Steps to replicate it:

Access news app via menu bar

Tested with 3 different browsers (Firefox, Brave & Chrome all Latest Stable)

[Gortosch]

Hello,

I have the same problem. Have you found a solution to this problem?

Thank you very much!
Sven.

[leogaggl]

No, unfortunately there isn’t much in terms of clues in the logs. There are some Javascript errors errors client side though.

[rakekniven]

The app is simply not ready for NC28.
See https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news → Alpha version.

Full story:

Support for Nextcloud 28

[Gortosch]

Hi,

thank you very much for the information.

Sven

[leogaggl]

Thanks for the info!

I did a Docker upgrade and there were no indications that the App wasn’t working on 28. I will need to find a way to check before upgrading. Just recently started using Nextcloud and getting the hang of the ecosystem.

Is there a place where you can see all the apps and support of release version before upgrade?

In the meantime I have upgraded to 25.0.0-alpha2 and other than “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘length’)” interface bubble on start it seems to work fine. Now that I know it’s not an issue with my environment and will keep an eye on releases.

Thank you!

[rakekniven]

@leogaggl

Is there a place where you can see all the apps and support of release version before upgrade?

Yes, the WebUI is checking all installed apps and show you a list of apps which are not ready for the new major version.

Just opened my NC and made a screenshot for you:

[leogaggl]

Thanks Mark!

This is what I am getting.

Shouldn’t that list News App as not compatible then?

That screen and the message I saw got me to upgrade to 28.0.0 in the first place. In future I will probably do what I do with other systems that are critical and not install any .0.0 releases

But since we’re more in a phase of trial and not having used it anger yet I opted to test with the newer features. So not much harm done.

Keep up the great work. It’s an enormously useful system and will allow us to have less reliance on the big cloud borgs we had to use in the past.

[rakekniven]

@leogaggl

Shouldn’t that list News App as not compatible then?

Not if it is already installed.

But before the major upgrade that should be the case.

[leogaggl]

I could have sworn that wasn’t coming up when I went for 28.0.0, but next time I will double-check that App listing before attempting.

[Ymetro]

MOD WARNING !!!

I recommend the css workaround mentioned in apps.css · GitHub.

[ernolf]

@Ymetro

I recommend the css workaround

That is not a good recommendation, since it affects the core. You should never touch the core, unless you know exactly what you are doing!

I answered you here:

Nextcloud version 29.0.0 news app not working

Hi @Ymetro, But the alpha version (meanwhile alpha7) of the app works perfectly! It is ALWAYS preferable to use an alpha version of an app rather than messing around with the core code. You don’t have to enable any “beta apps option” for all apps or even the core. This simple occ call does the trick: occ app:update --allow-unstable -- news So you can keep the core/css/apps.css in vanilla state Much and good luck, ernolf

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Much and good luck,
ernolf