I know that Earl feels about blocks about the same as Indiana Jones feels about snakes. And I'm finding that blocks are a PITA to deploy in a current project, so I'm sympathetic.

I'm not sure where to ask this, but since I'm here -- what is the preferred way to generate dynamic, coded, block-like content in Drupal within the Panels ecosystem? Most of these "block-oids" would be deployed within a pane anyway (although I do need some things to post in the traditional sidebars). I'm guessing it's some kind of plugin written to one of the CTools APIs; I'm just not sure which type that would be.

Don't need much help; just a pointer to the appropriate docs.

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lazysoundsystem commented

I'm also trying to figure this out. As far as I can see, you need a combination of this:

http://shellmultimedia.com/articles/creating-content-type-ctools-panels-3

and a look at the plugin examples in Ctools (as the article is a *little* out of date).

I think you want a 'content type plugin' to replace a block.

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Letharion commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Hello!

Unfortunately, this issue has remained open, without activity, for a very long time. I hope you can understand that between maintaining the module, work, and other obligations, the maintainers are very busy. This leads to not all issues being answered.

In order to figure out who still actually needs help, I'm going over all low activity support requests that has not been touched for 6 months, and marking them "Postponed, needs info". In many cases, I expect the question to already have been answered, or become obsolete.

If you still care for this issue, please just reset it's status to active, and we'll try to help you. Please remember to post any new information that may be relevant, such as new versions of Panels that you are using, or own attempts at debugging.

Regards, Letharion

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Letharion commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (cannot reproduce)

A month has passed, and I'm going over the issue queue ones more. Some issues have been closed for other reasons, some re-opened, but this issue has remained silent for the past month.
Because of this, I'm doing a bulk close of a number off issues. I'm sorry that it happened this way, but the issue queue has had to few contributors, and to many questions.

Again, as said in the previous comment, feel free to re-open the issue by setting it to active, if you still need help.

Regards, Letharion.