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Fixing DocLister White Screens After Saving a Resource

How to troubleshoot the blank central pane that can appear after installing DocLister on certain Evolution builds and saving a resource.

A white screen in the main manager pane after saving a resource is the kind of bug that immediately blocks editorial work. In the original case, the issue appeared after installing DocLister on a specific Evolution build, even though the surrounding manager chrome still loaded.

This is usually a compatibility or parser-side failure triggered during the save/render cycle, not a random visual glitch.

What to check first

  • whether the installed DocLister version matches the Evo build,
  • system logs for hidden parser or PHP errors,
  • other components mentioned alongside the failure, such as RedirectMap or RelativeTVList,
  • whether the issue appears only on save or also on fresh open.

When the page frame survives and only the central pane goes blank, the core manager is still running. Something in the document processing pipeline is failing after the action is invoked.

The fastest route is usually to reduce the active extensions around the save flow until the incompatible piece becomes obvious.

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