Troubleshooting 

The report button is missing 

  • Reporting can be disabled for users and groups with options.contextReporter.enable = 0 or for everybody with general.enabled.
  • The tile view of the file list has no action buttons. Switch to the list view or use the context menu of the file or folder.
  • If your project sets options.file_list.primaryActions itself, add contextReporterReport, see User TSconfig.
  • Content elements in the Page module have no report button. Use their ⋮ menu.
  • After an update, flush the caches and reload the backend.

The dialog says the object is not available 

The dialog only accepts objects that the reporter can access. The message "The selected page, record, file or folder is not available to you." appears when the page, record, file or folder

  • is outside the web mounts, file mounts or permissions of the reporter,
  • belongs to another workspace than the current workspace of the reporter,
  • is file metadata of a file the reporter cannot access, or
  • has been deleted in the meantime.

Report the problem from the toolbar instead: the report then refers to the backend view.

The report shows the default language 

Pages are reported in the language selected in the Page module, the Preview module or another module with the page tree, see Language. The default language is used when

  • several translations are shown side by side,
  • the page is not translated into the selected language (in the current workspace),
  • the reporter may not edit the selected language, or
  • the page was reported from a module without page tree.

The visibility settings do not match the website 

The dialog lists the settings stored in TYPO3 when it opened, see Visibility settings. The website can differ because of cached pages, a reverse proxy or CDN, the template, extensions or the visitor's login. Restrictions of parent pages ("Extend to subpages") are only listed for reporters who may edit that field, and only up to the first parent page they can access.

The Extension Manager says the extension is not available 

In classic mode, the upload of the ZIP file ends with "Extension context_reporter is not available" when the Extension Manager installs uploaded extensions automatically. Switch off the automatic installation, upload the file again and activate the extension, see Classic mode.

Reports do not arrive by email 

Open System > Context Reports > Settings > Email and check the Status panel, see Email status and test email. In most cases email delivery is switched off, no recipient is saved, or the TYPO3 mail transport is null, mbox, a spool or a local mail catcher such as Mailpit in DDEV. Use Send test email after every change. The delivery history of a report shows transport errors without credentials.

Webhook deliveries fail 

  • Check the Status panel on the Webhook tab and use Send test webhook.
  • The endpoint must use HTTPS unless webhook.allowInsecureHttp is enabled, and must answer with a 2xx status code. Redirects are not followed.
  • A missing environment variable is shown as such in the status panel.
  • The delivery history shows the HTTP status code and the beginning of the response body.
  • Slow endpoints fail after webhook.timeout seconds.
  • For the n8n workflow, see Troubleshooting.

A report with a screenshot cannot be sent 

  • The screenshot is larger than reporting.maxScreenshotSizeKb after compression.
  • PHP rejects the request: upload_max_filesize and post_max_size must be larger than the screenshot limit.
  • The database rejects the query: max_allowed_packet of MariaDB or MySQL must be larger than the screenshot limit, see Storage.

Screen capture is not offered 

Screen capture needs a secure context (HTTPS) and a desktop browser with the Screen Capture API. If the browser does not offer it, or the reporter declines the picker, upload an image or paste it from the clipboard.

Copying does not work 

Browsers can block clipboard access, especially without HTTPS. TYPO3 then shows "Could not be copied to clipboard". Use Download instead.

The report history shows a database error 

The database schema is older than the extension. Run vendor/bin/typo3 extension:setup or Admin Tools > Maintenance > Analyze Database Structure, see Updating the extension.

A setting cannot be changed 

Settings that are set in $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXTENSIONS']['context_reporter'] are read-only in the module, see Where settings are stored.

If the settings page says that settings of a development version take precedence, config/system/settings.php still contains a context_reporter entry below EXTENSIONS from a pre-release installation. Remove that entry and configure the extension in System > Context Reports > Settings.

Old reports are not removed 

The default retention keeps reports forever, and the cleanup only runs when it is started. Configure reporting.retentionDays and schedule vendor/bin/typo3 context-reporter:cleanup, see Retention and cleanup.