Hi All.

Just after creatin' a new Forum or Topic, I get the error : " can't cast null value, function: 'CLng'"
Well I figured that this error arises because the number of Topics in the new forum is 0 and the number of Posts is also zero.
So in the database these values are stored as "Null".

Well my solution was to cahnge the foll line:
From : lngPosts = CLng(rsData("No_of_Posts")) 'somethin like dis
TO:
 if IsNumeric(rsData("No_of_Posts")) then
   lngPosts = CLng(rsData("No_of_Posts"))
 else
   lngPosts = 0
 endif

... and the same for the number of topics.

Is this a bug or it just happened on my system only?
Maybe these table fields should not be allowed to take "Null" values therefore forcing the script to input a zero when a new Forum is created.

I'm on wwf7.3 , SQL Server 7, IIS5

The problem with SQL server 7, is that it doesn't always input the defualt value. The default value for this field in the database is 0.

SQL srever 2000 is much better at inserting default values and so shouldn't have this problem, but I shall change the SQL server serup script to force the default value to be entered for SQL server 7.

Thanks -boRg- "as always"

That should do.
i shall also look at SQL 7 and try to figure out why defaults ain't functionin'

Cheers.