Symptons

1. Browser reports a a Javascript error
   • eg. "Function not found" or "javascript:void(0);"
2. Trying to toggle the "Red X" in the List View, Detail Link or Detail View column fails.
3. After turning on table sorting in the Administration screens, front-end table sorting doesn't work.

Possible Causes

WAMP/MAMP

When users have experienced this problem the cause has been that they are running a developement or test version of the Joomla website in a virtual testing environment like WAMP or similar on a Windows variant. If the configuration of the virtual environment is not correct then Joomla's constant DS (stands for directory separator) can be wrong resulting in certain older browsers experiencing problems in resolving the path to the Javascript files required.

eg. the path will have '\' rather than '/' or vice versa.

MooTools Upgrade

EasyTable Pro (or EasyTable for J!) is/are not compatible with the System plugin introduced in Joomla 1.5.19.

Solution

Generally users can do one of three things;

1. Change the virtual server configuration so that Joomla sets the DS value properly (we don't know how but people tell us it can be done).
2. Use a different hosting setup that doesn't require a virtualisation box (we work on Mac's and Linux hosts so we don't see these problems).
3. Try a non-Internet Explorer browser which can parse the path even with the error (preferably a recent Firefox, Safari or Google's Chrome).

This FAQ is current as of EasyTable for J! 1.0.5 and EasyTable Pro 0.9.0. EasyTable Pro 1.0 no longer uses the DS separator and has no reports of this problem.