Hello LimeSurvey community,

we have a problem with the Regenerate question codes feature. Whenever we try to use it on an inactive survey (doesn't matter if straight or by question group), we are being redirected to the survey index and the question codes remain unchanged. The problem likely lies in our installation and/or server configuration, seeing as the feature in question works flawlessly on a separate LimeSurvey installation hosted by LS.

One of our devs tried to figure out where it went wrong and discovered that the regeneratequestioncodes action isn't called at all when using the regenerate feature (no difference between running it normally and using die() at the top of the action). The index action is called instead which then redirects us to the survey index.

Do you have an idea how this issue could be solved or where we should look next to find the cause of it?

What version/build of LimeSurvey is used?

Version 2.63.1. We haven't updated yet due to the announced fix for 2.64.

msuelzer wrote: due to the announced fix for 2.64.

What announced fix?

Nevermind, I misread it. It was an announcement for the 2.63 release two weeks ago.

msuelzer wrote: Do you have an idea how this issue could be solved or where we should look next to find the cause of it?

The demo.limesurvey.org Version 2.64.0 is showing the same behavior as you described. Redirection to the survey list.

What version/build is used with your LimeSurvey hosting with LimeSurvey GmbH?

The hosted installation runs on Version 2.63.1 as well. Really interesting that the demo LS has the same issue.

It works locally on my machine, but yes, not on demo. Will check.

This commit fixes the issue: github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/commit/...da89e40111905ab18ed7

msuelzer wrote: The hosted installation runs on Version 2.63.1 as well.

How it is possible that the same version is having different code (one with the bug, one without the bug).
Is the hosted installation not the same as the downloaded version when it comes to version/build?

How Yii constructs the URLs depends on the config, which might explain the problem. The hosted version is not exactly the same, but in this case it shouldn't matter.

olle wrote: How Yii constructs the URLs depends on the config, which might explain the problem.

Which would mean that msuelzers issue won't necessarily be fixed since the Yii config isn't changed on the selfhosted installation with your fix.

The fix contains just adding sa in a path.
Or the versioning is getting more confusing.
The demo.limesurvey.org is stating version 2.64.0 and the regeneration of questioncodes is now working.
The release 2.64.0 Build 170307 is three days old.
What was changed at the demo installation then?

jelo wrote: Which would mean that msuelzers issue won't necessarily be fixed since the Yii config isn't changed on the selfhosted installation with your fix.

I can confirm that it has been fixed by upgrading to Version 2.64.1; editing the config file manually wasn't necessary (though as you wrote, fixing it manually would've been trivial as well).