Essentials Sign Shop not working at all

[Nagol12344]

i can't make a shop sign with essentials please help

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output on /ess debug
[13:57:42 INFO]: *Twiggylogan6765 issued server command: /ess debug
[13:57:42 INFO]: [Essentials] attempting to charge user *Twiggylogan6765
[13:57:42 INFO]: [Essentials] calculated command (essentials) cost for *Twiggylogan6765 as 0
[13:57:42 INFO]: [Essentials] charge user *Twiggylogan6765 completed

[Nagol12344]

i tried something and this came up
14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.color - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.format - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.magic - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.rgb - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.color - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.format - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.magic - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.rgb - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.color - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.format - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.magic - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.rgb - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.color - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.format - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.magic - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.rgb - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] checking if *Twiggylogan6765 has essentials.signs.buy.create - true
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] Trying to deserialize item '' with resolver 'essentials:custom_items'...
[14:28:50 INFO]: [Essentials] Error calling the command /\ sign: Buy
com.earth2me.essentials.signs.SignException: §4Unknown item name: .
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.getItemStack(EssentialsSign.java:375) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.getTrade(EssentialsSign.java:324) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.getTrade(EssentialsSign.java:315) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.validateTrade(EssentialsSign.java:308) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.SignBuy.onSignCreate(SignBuy.java:19) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.onSignCreate(EssentialsSign.java:114) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.SignBlockListener.onSignSignChange(SignBlockListener.java:134) ~[?:?]
at com.destroystokyo.paper.event.executor.asm.generated.GeneratedEventExecutor42.execute(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]
at org.bukkit.plugin.EventExecutor.lambda$create$1(EventExecutor.java:69) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at co.aikar.timings.TimedEventExecutor.execute(TimedEventExecutor.java:80) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:70) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:607) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:2816) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.PlayerConnection.lambda$a$18(PlayerConnection.java:2773) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.PlayerConnection.lambda$a$1(PlayerConnection.java:328) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.PlayerConnection.lambda$a$3(PlayerConnection.java:342) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.TickTask.run(SourceFile:18) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.IAsyncTaskHandler.executeTask(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:136) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.IAsyncTaskHandlerReentrant.executeTask(SourceFile:23) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.IAsyncTaskHandler.executeNext(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:109) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.bb(MinecraftServer.java:1138) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.executeNext(MinecraftServer.java:1131) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.IAsyncTaskHandler.awaitTasks(IAsyncTaskHandler.java:119) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.sleepForTick(MinecraftServer.java:1092) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.w(MinecraftServer.java:1006) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_16_R3.MinecraftServer.lambda$a$0(MinecraftServer.java:175) ~[minecraft_server.jar:git-Paper-503]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?]
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: §4Unknown item name: .
at com.earth2me.essentials.items.FlatItemDb.get(FlatItemDb.java:123) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.items.AbstractItemDb.get(AbstractItemDb.java:98) ~[?:?]
at com.earth2me.essentials.signs.EssentialsSign.getItemStack(EssentialsSign.java:371) ~[?:?]
... 26 more
[14:28:55 WARN]: Player *Twiggylogan6765 just tried to change non-editable sign
[14:29:05 WARN]: Player *Twiggylogan6765 just tried to change non-editable sign
[14:29:06 WARN]: Player *Twiggylogan6765 just tried to change non-editable sign

[pop4959]

It says you were trying to use . as an item name, but that isn't a valid item. Try something like diamond instead. Read this if you need a guide on how to set up signs correctly.

[Nagol12344]

i did and it set to just [Buy] (in red) when i was done