Hi,

I have this weird but serious problem in Umbraco. I had this working and running testsite. After a lot of experimenting I decided to delete this site and to start a new one. Unfortunately, this isn't working out so well. I made a new content item based on 'Home page' document type and template. But when I'm trying to publish, I'm getting the error as you can see in the topic title.
I've found almost nothing on the internet concerning this error, so I was hoping anyone on this forum could help me out with this one.

Greets.

Problem is there ain't no parent. Here you can have a look at the structure.
I don't know what is the problem here. Neither of those two can be published.

Well, that's one I haven't seen before. Hmmm...

Okay, a couple questions and a few things to try.

Did you create a fresh umbraco installation and database for this new site, or simply delete stuff from an existing site and reuse the same umbraco installation and database?

If deleted/re-used, what was in the site before you deleted it? Did you use a website wizard package? Did the site work properly, or did it also have issues?

If you deleted a bunch of stuff from the site to "clear it out", delete the two remaining nodes, empty the umbraco recycle bin and then "republish the entire site" by right-clicking on the CONTENT node at the top of the content tree. Now add a node and publish it. Does that work?

If the above didn't work, create a new document type with a new name. For testing purposes you don't even need to assign any properties, nor any templates. Then, create a new content node at the top level of the content tree and select the new docType you just created. Does it publish? If so, then the issue is with your other docType(s) and since you don't have any content, I'd delete the content and *then* the docTypes, then create new docTypes and new content nodes based on them.

Let us know how it goes.

cheers,
doug.

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Hello,

We have exactly the same problem.
A page that cannot be published with no parent.

It's a fresh install from 2 days. I really don't want to recreate the database with all the stuff in it.

When we delete something, it does not go anymore in the recycle bin...if it can help.

Do you have any idea ?

I see there is not solution to this one yet. I have exactly the some problem.

Mine started like this..

I had this site structure (doc types shown in ())



Now, all was good, until I worked out that 'Another Page' needed to have a child page, where the other content items at that level did not.

So, I created a new document type called 'Another Doc Type', deleted the existing 'Another Page' and recreated it with the new Doc Type.

Now, my Content tree looked exactly the same as above. However when I ran my site, 'Another Page was listed in the navigation twice!!

As a test I deleted the new 'Another Page'. This time when I ran the site the Another Site nav item was still there.

Nothing I could do would make it disappear.

So I deleted every content item from the tree with the hope of starting again. This is where the fun started..

With NO items in the umbraco content tree, when I ran the site, it STILL had a nav item there for 'Another Page'. I deleted the XML from the Umbraco.config file and it got recreated with the 'Another Page' item in it.

I restared IIS, Rebooted my machine, Refreshed and refresh and every thing I could, yet that long ago deleted content item remained.

Finally, I attempted to recreate the site, I created the Home page again and tried to publish it.

My content tree now looks like this.



I got the same error as the other guys here.. Publising failed because the parent page isn't published

Can the top level Content item be pubished? Can it be deleted? Where is in the database tables? Can't I just set it to published in the database?