Odd eventDescHTML behaviour and disappearing assets within Events App

Hi,

I've encountered a few issues on a client site (Runway 3.0.8) which seem to be related to the Events App and assets used within Events. The issues appear to show following an update to 3.0.8 (previously running 2.8.31, I believe).

The first issue is that the eventDescHTML field is behaving unexpectedly. Prior to the update, it was using the following in the main event template, with the client using this field to enter the event description and add links to resources (both internal and external urls).

<perch:events id="eventDescHTML" type="textarea" textile="true" editor="markitup" />

After the update, we saw that when edited and re-saved the textile formatting was output to the page, so we would see on the page h2. Overview instead of the word Overiew displayed as an <h2>.

I found that this could be resolved by switching the eventDescHTML field to the following (using markdown in place of textile).

<perch:events id="eventDescHTML" type="textarea" markdown="true" editor="markitup" />

The next unexpected behaviour is seen when trying to add assets within this field using the editor.

Trying to add an using the file icon shown as part of the editor results in the text "[cms:asset 1263] Whatever the link text is" being output to the page, instead of the text and a link.

This occurs when the eventDescHTML field uses either Textile or Markitup.

As a workaround, the client has been first adding the assets to the Asset Library, and then pasting in the url of the asset in question, with the following steps:

Select text Click the link icon Paste in the relative url to the asset in the link pop up window Save

This seemed to work. But now we're seeing that Assets added in this way are disappearing after around 24 hours or so. The links to the items display on the site at first, but then return a 404 after 24 hours or so. On checking, the asset is no longer listed as an item in the Asset Library and the item is not showing in the file system on the server.

We're not experiencing disappearing assets elsewhere on the site, only within the Events module. And it appears that the issue is limited to assets referenced from the eventDescHTML field. (We're currently trying to present links in an alternative textfield as a separate item from the eventDescHTML field, and hope to see if assets linked from here persist).

I don't want to conflate unrelated issues, but the common element here seems to be the eventDescHTML field.

Here are the diagnostics:

Perch Runway: 3.0.8
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (3.0.8), assets (3.0.8), categories (3.0.8), perch_blog (5.5.1), perch_events (1.9.5), perch_forms (1.9.1), perch_mailchimp (3.1)
DB driver: PDO
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Users: 15
App runtimes:
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        'perch_events',
        'perch_mailchimp',
        'perch_blog',
    );
Scheduled tasks for perch_blog: delete_spam_comments (1440 mins)
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Editor plug-ins:
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helpURL:
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lang: en-gb
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latest_version:
on_sale_version:
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perch_mailchimp_campaign_url: /mailchimp/campaign/{campaignSlug}
dashboard: 0
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content_hideNonEditableRegions: 0
content_frontend_edit: 0
perch_mailchimp_secret: a8a5304
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PERCH_AUTH_LOCKOUT_DURATION: 1 HOUR
PERCH_VERIFY_UPLOADS:
PERCH_CUSTOM_EDITOR_CONFIGS:
PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN:
PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8
PERCH_DB_PORT:
PERCH_DB_SOCKET:
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Hosting settings

PHP: 7.0.21
Zend: 3.0.0
OS: Linux
SAPI: cgi-fcgi
Safe mode: not detected
MySQL client: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: b5c5906d452ec590732a93b051f3827e02749b83 $
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PHP max form post size: 20M
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HTTP_CONNECTION: close
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SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.4.26 (Unix)
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SERVER_PORT: 80
REMOTE_ADDR: 83.56.0.90
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/sites/XXXXXXXX/public_html/
REQUEST_SCHEME: http
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/sites/XXXXXXXX/public_html/
SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster@XXXXXXXX
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /home/sites/XXXXXXXX/public_html/perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php
REMOTE_PORT: 55407
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
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Thanks in advance for your help, and please let me know if I can provide any further information.