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Hi,

Can you tell me how did you manage to show things on xxx/user/uid/dashboard

I am facing the same problem here.

Thanks.

Are you able to add widgets using the widgets tab on the dashboard page? You should be able to click on that tab and add some widgets to your dashboard. If you can not see the widgets in the widgets tab then take a look at http://drupal.org/node/869016 because it may be a similar issue. In my case I had to clear the theme registry to get the widgets to show up.

Clearing the cache in itself does not seem to work, you need to clear the theme registry specifically. This can be done using the Admin menu module or Drush.

If you download the admin menu module, you can clear the "theme registry" while you are on the blank "add widgets" page and it will work. Or if you are using a theme that allows you to rebuild the theme registry on every page load, you can enable that and it will always work. However, it would not be a good idea to have the theme registry rebuilt on a production site as it severely hurts performance.

I am still planning on looking into this more to try to figure out the underlying caching issues, I just have not had the time yet.

I have been waiting to see if the maintainer would have an easy fix for this but it seems like he hasn't checked up on this in quite some time. I plan on looking at this either today or tomorrow because I need it fixed as well. I will try to find a fix and post a patch here if I am able to figure out the issue.

Ok I finally took the plunge and sat down to figure out this bug. It seems to be something really weird that is going on with the template_preprocess_dashboard_widget_browser not being called when you go to the dashboard/widgets page. For some reason if you clear the theme registry right before the page load it will call that function but not under normal circumstances.

I honestly can not figure out why this function is not being called as it should be called every time based on the hook_theme documentation and template_preprocess documentation that I have been looking over. I am not sure if this is some weird bug in the dashboard module or perhaps something in core.

Either way I found a very easy workaround by explicitly telling the module to call the function in the hook_theme implementation. I would be interested to know what the root cause of this issue really is, if there is someone with more Drupal theming knowledge that knows the intricacies of preprocessing functions, they may be able to more easily find the root cause of this bug... until then, here is the handy workaround patch that should do the trick.

Let me know if it works.

Since I am not the maintainer I can't add it to the dev version of the module. You should be able to pull the module down on your local system, run the patch, and then upload it to the site. If you can't, I can probably send you the patched version (it would be nice for me to have some others test it to make sure the patch works outside my test environment).

Otherwise, the patch is only a one line change, just open up the dashboard.module file and add a line of code after line 238. Just change:

'dashboard_widget_browser' => array(
   'path' => $path,
   'template' => 'dashboard-browse-widgets',
),

To:

'dashboard_widget_browser' => array(
  'path' => $path,
  'template' => 'dashboard-browse-widgets',
  'preprocess functions' => array('template_preprocess_dashboard_widget_browser'),
),

You should then be able to upload that to your site.

Thx for this post in combination with my post here http://drupal.org/node/1036994 everything works now. I think it's time for the next dev update. These both fixes are really nessesary to get the dashboard module run.

I would make sure to clear the cache just to make sure. Then try to go back to the widgets page and re-add some items. If it still does not work, then make sure you have the jquery_ui module installed correctly. When installing the jquery_ui module you need to add the jquery_ui library. There is information on how to install it in the README file inside the jquery_ui module.

It appears you are correct, my fix displays the dashboard widgets but for some reason does not display the link to add them to your dashboard. This still appears to be a theme registry or caching issue. I will be looking into it more today.

Ok, again its the same issue as before but with a different theme function. Here is the quick change to the code, after I confirm that this is the last issue I will upload a new patch file with both of these changes.

Change dashboard.module around line 240 from:

'dashboard_display_widget' => array(
  'path' => $path,
  'template' => 'dashboard-display-widget',
  'arguments' => array(
    'widget' => array(),
  ),
),

To:

'dashboard_display_widget' => array(
  'path' => $path,
  'template' => 'dashboard-display-widget',
  'arguments' => array(
    'widget' => array(),
  ),
  'preprocess functions' => array('template_preprocess_dashboard_display_widget'),
),

Just adding the preprocess function piece. Still not sure why it is necessary, but it appear to work.

Here is the patch.

How to install the patch

This should help http://drupal.org/patch/apply