News Aggregator tutorial "anvil not defined" NameError

Anvil Q&A
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I am currently experiencing this issue on the news aggregator tutorial. When I try to call the add_article server function from the client side.

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Welcome to the forum!

Iā€™m not able to replicate this error with a fresh clone of the final News Aggregator tutorial app:Anvil | Login

So in order to receive help, you may need to provide more details about what specifically you have done.

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This is the server module:

import anvil.tables as tables
import anvil.tables.query as q
from anvil.tables import app_tables
import anvil.server
from datetime import datetime

This is a server module. It runs on the Anvil server,

rather than in the userā€™s browser.

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Those lines run without error for me just now in a server module. Which line of code is triggering the error you are seeing? import anvil.tables as tables?

Please provide a clone link for your app.

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Line 29 of the Homepage client code, the:

anvil.server.call(ā€˜add_articleā€™, new_article)

This is the link:

https://anvil.works/build#clone:ROYTVHVFNOXBWUPS=CQQL7PG656EO4JIADJ3X62B2

Kind Regards,

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You are missing an import in that client module :

import anvil.server

Gets created automatically, I think you must have accidentally deleted it?

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Thank you so much, that worked. I donā€™t see how I could have deleted it but you never know, that must be it.

Kind Regards,

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Itā€™s helpful if you click ā€œSolutionā€ under david.wylieā€™s post.

By the way, that import would not be created automatically if you have unchecked Auto import services in your settings.

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I didnā€™t know that was an option. I knew someone had asked for it, but I must have missed the announcement. Sneaky Updates by any chance?

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Yep, was a sneaky one, I think: Sneaky Anvil Updates - #48 by hugetim

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Deffo missed that one, cheers!

I was about to complain it was in an unintuative place, but anywhere else would make it per app I suppose, and thatā€™s likely a system wide setting.

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