This field already exists

[nemo.omen]

I'm having a little trouble with adding firlds to profiles. No matter what field I try to create I receive the message "This field ready exists". Has aanyone run into this problem? Any advice?

[mgala]

I am having the same problem. It does not mattger what name or format a field is entered the system always returns a "This field already exists" response.
Any assisstance would be appreciated.

Regards,

Mitesh

[daniel]

Hi,
i experienced the same error as described here. The problem seemed to be missing privileges to the mysql database user, in my case 'agnitas', the standard user provided in the db-setup sql file 'openemm.sql'.

Although privileges are set in the above mentioned file these were apparently not sufficient or maybe the sript caused an error on execution so that not all of the privielegs were set in a correct way.
For lack of time I missed to take a closer look to previous set of privileges when I simply granted ALL PRIVILEGES to the user 'agnitas' on db 'openemm'.

Finally this worked for me that I'm now able to add new fields to profile-database.

Hope I was able to help.

[ocb]

Hi,
I had the same problem (OpenEMM 5.1 VMware Image), and fund it sufficent to grant the CREATE privilege to the 'agnitas' user. I think its a bug in the openemm.sql script.

Regards,

Olaf

[maschoff]

We have to investigate this issue, since the feature works on all of our test machines. Maybe default permissions are different on different platforms.

It would be helpful for us if you provide your OS and version as well the MySQL version you use, i.e. OpenSuse 10.0 + MySQL 4.1.13.

Thank you!

[maschoff]

The last 2 lines of file openemm.sql, which you are supposed to use to create the openemm database are:

GRANT DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, LOCK TABLES, SELECT, ALTER, INDEX, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON openemm.* TO 'agnitas'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openemm';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

The expression "GRANT ALTER" should give OpenEMM the permission to change the structure of a table.

[alex78]

We confirmed this bug. It only occurs when using mysql version 5.0 and higher. Since mysql 5.0 it is necessary to grant CREATE privilege in order to ALTER a table.

As a workaround you can grant the CREATE privilege to the "agnitas" user.
GRANT DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE, LOCK TABLES, SELECT, ALTER, INDEX, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, CREATE ON openemm.* TO 'agnitas'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'openemm';

see also http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=848488


Thank you for finding this bug!
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The OpenEMM Team

[ocb]

FYI: Since I'm using the VMWare Image of OpenEMM 5.1, I assume that I'm not using MySQL 5. This is the output of "yum list installed | grep mysql":

mysql.i386 4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1 installed
mysql-server.i386 4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1 installed

Regards,
Olaf