added a javascript alert to display an error when does not exist.

diff --git a/webcit/static/summaryview.js b/webcit/static/summaryview.js
index 4ea5ccc313cc19ff6e8287fc257dd4f53e70ffb9..6fd338c770eb17aa75f80ed840d161a2e839b2f2 100644 (file)
--- a/webcit/static/summaryview.js
+++ b/webcit/static/summaryview.js
@@ -85,7 +85,12 @@ function createMessageView() {
        document.getElementById('m_refresh').setAttribute("href","#");
        Event.observe(document.onresize ? document : window, "resize", normalizeHeaderTable);
        Event.observe(document.onresize ? document : window, "resize", sizePreviewPane);
-       $('summpage').observe('change', getPage);
+       if ( $('summpage') ) {
+               $('summpage').observe('change', getPage);
+       }
+       else {
+               alert('error: summpage does not exist');
+       }
        takeOverSearchOMatic();
        setupDragDrop(); // here for now
 }
@@ -553,6 +558,7 @@ function setupPageSelector() {
                summpage.appendChild(opt);
        }
 }
+
 function getPage(event) {
        var target = event.target;
        startmsg = target.options.item(target.selectedIndex).value;
@@ -560,6 +566,7 @@ function getPage(event) {
        //query = ""; // We are getting a page from the _entire_ msg list, don't query
        getMessages();
 }
+
 function takeOverSearchOMatic() {
        var searchForm = document.getElementById("searchomatic").getElementsByTagName("form")[0];
        // First disable the form post