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Hi Sakis,

I was installing JFilters Pro on a new website.

And on https://www.sacd.be/fr/filtre I am having the following error

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Bluecoder\Component\Jfilters\Administrator\Model\Filter\Option::setValue(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type string, null given, called in /home/sacdknek/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfilters/src/BaseObject.php on line 67

When I searched on your Tickets I found a similar ticket by cprh about this, but when I click on any of the 6 links I have a "Error 403" (so I guess either they should not even appear on the Search, either they should be open :) ).

As usual, I tried to investigate to the maximum myself.

Actually, I have hundreds of articles, but if I limit the Filter Page to the Category 39

• I also get the error, even if there are only 13 Articles in that SubCategory
• So I tried something: if I edit and Save each of them, they the page https://www.sacd.be/fr/filtre works instead of throwing an error

Indeed, among the hundreds of Articles concerned, many were created even before the creation of the Custom Fields (of type Date). So obviously this case is not "covered".

Could JFilters be improved so that it does not crash when there is no value for the Custom Field ?

Txs!

Hi Sakis,

Thanks very much for your kind help!

I ran the query and indeed I found 28 corresponding records.
I deleted them (and indeed double checked that the same query would now return 0 result).
I deleted the Smart Search Index, re-ran the Index.

But I still get the following message: 

Bluecoder\Component\Jfilters\Administrator\Model\Filter\Option::setValue(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type string, null given, called in /home/sacdknek/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfilters/src/BaseObject.php on line 67

Then I went further: in JFilters, I disabled the 2 fields "Début (Start)" and "Fin (End)" which correspond to Calendar Custom Fields.
And there the page works!

So obviously the error is thrown by something weird in the database : the a given Custom Field like "Début (Start)", I see that values are written with a dash (-) and some others with a slash (/)

2019-02-01 15:37:00

2018/10/30 17:33:00

So after having fixed this (changed / to - everywhere for those 2 custom fields in the database), now all works fine!

Thank you sooooo much Sakis for having given the path to the solution. That was a tricky one since somehow the database had wrong content. But without you I would not have guessed that the database was the rootcause.

Txs again and see you soon!

Marc