Below you'll find listings of the most common webflow errors.
The collection structure changed since the last publish
‼ Error message
err: CollectionSchemaChangedError: The collection structure changed since the last publish
📔 Explanation:
Your collection's structure changed on Webflow and it needs to be published again.
Why does that happen:
It is simply a restriction from Webflow's API. They do not allow publishing through the API if the structure is out of sync.
✅ Solution:
Step 1: Log into your Webflow account
Step 2: Publish your website to all your domains at the same time
Site is published to multiple domains at different times
‼ Error message:
err: InconsistentPublicationsError: Site is published to multiple domains at different times
📔 Explanation:
This means your webflow website is published to different domain at different times.
Why does that happen:
It is simply a restriction from Webflow's API. They do not allow publishing through the API if the domains are out of sync.
✅ Solution:
Step 1: Log into your Webflow account
Step 2: Publish your website to all your domains at the same time
Validation Failure
📔 Explanation:
This means certain fields failed the validation on your webflow website.
Why does that happen:
Webflow allows you to put certain validation rules on fields. For example, the excerpt might be required, have a maximum length of 400 characters and a minimum of 100 characters.
✅ Solution:
Step 1: Click on view details on the StoryChief error report
Step 2: Read the listed problems, and do the required changes to your article
Conflict with server data: The item can't be published if the site is not published
📔 Explanation:
This means your webflow website is not published.
Why does that happen:
It is simply a restriction from Webflow's API. They do not allow publishing through the API if the website isn't published.
✅ Solution:
Step 1: Log into your Webflow account
Step 2: Publish your website to all your domains at the same time
Collection not found
📔 Explanation:
This means that StoryChief could not find your configured collection on Webflow.
Why does that happen:
Typically, this is caused by restoring a backup on Webflow. Webflow resets every ID of your collections, this is a known issue of Webflow and they warn you about this when restoring a backup.
✅ Solution:
Step 1: Head over to your Webflow channels on StoryChief (link)
Step 2: Click on the disconnected channel to edit it.
Step 2: Depending on the situation you might have to select the correct collection name and press Restore
Field 'slug': Unique value is already in database
📔 Explanation:
This means that webflow has another item with that slug in its database.
Why does that happen:
There's 2 possible reasons.
First, you have another article with the same slug already on Webflow. Simply changing your slug on StoryChief will solve it so that it remains unique.
Second, you previously had an article with that slug, but it has already been removed / unpublished.
✅ Solution:
If you can't find an article on Webflow with that slug, you should be able to solve it by republishing your webflow website to all domains.
Step 1: Log into your Webflow account
Step 2: Publish your website to all your domains at the same time
CMS Items not found
📔 Explanation:
This means that the blog post you are trying to update has been deleted in Webflow ( not via Story Chief).
Why does that happen:
If you publish a blog post via Story Chief to Webflow, and then deleted it in Webflow, Story Chief does not know about the fact that you deleted the post, we we try to update a post that actually does not exist anymore.
✅ Solution:
** Please try not to delete posts that have been published via Story Chief directly in Webflow, unpublish them via Story Chief instead.
Step-1: Unpublish your Webflow site ( all domains )
Step-2: Publish the Webflow site ( all domains )
Step-3: In your Story Chief account, dublicate the story and publish it again to Webflow
The reason you need to Unpublish and then publish your site is because Webflow keeps the slugs cached, which means the post will not be created using the same old slug.