Add existing field: you need to select a widget

Posted by cavax on July 26, 2011 at 4:51pm

i got the title's problem when i try to create a new field.
The problem is that i select a new field name, then the type and i'd like to select the widget, but i cant because the input select it's like locked. i mean i cant click on the widget select, and if i save i get:

Add fieldname field: you need to select a widget

any idea? i tryed to edit the field_ui_admin_inc, but i still having the same problem.
Thanks

Comments

It would help to mention the

Posted by nevets on July 26, 2011 at 6:15pm

It would help to mention the field type or is it for any field type?

Every field

Posted by cavax on July 27, 2011 at 2:57pm

The problem is that this happens for every field type, also the existent ones....

i tried changing themes and stuff, but it seems to be a problem outside themes and css (i thought was an z-index).

It's something in the core, cause i've also tryed to rebuild the site with a new db, but nothing has changed

http://www.de-signtn.it

Are you selecting the field

Posted by nevets on July 27, 2011 at 3:19pm

Are you selecting the field type first, it should enable the form element (widget).

If not I would suspect a javascript error.

Solved

Posted by cavax on July 27, 2011 at 3:16pm

I had to delete all the site and the db. Dont know wtf:(

http://www.de-signtn.it

Shoot

Posted by eric-ie on July 29, 2011 at 5:22pm

The same thing is happening to me.
It happened immediately after upgrading to Drupal 7.7
Didn't happen before that but now every field asks me to add a widget every time but the widget selector is locked. So we can't add any fields.

JQuery Update

Posted by eric-ie on July 29, 2011 at 6:37pm

For what it's worth I took jQuery Update off my site and everything went back to normal. Put it back on and my fields broke again.

That suggests there is a core

Posted by nevets on July 29, 2011 at 6:50pm

That suggests there is a core js change since the last release of jQuery Update that would need to be addressed.

Firebug workaround and patch.

Posted by artfulrobot on August 2, 2011 at 10:59am

This happened for me when I updated jQuery. Suspect it's something to do with the changes between .attr() and .prop().

I 'fix' it by using firebug to remove the 'disabled="disabled"' property from the select element.

And then it annoyed me too much. Here's a patch to core: modules/field_ui/field_ui.js

89c89,92
<     $(this).html(html).attr('disabled', disabled ? 'disabled' : '');
---
>     // old drupal core: 
> 	// $(this).html(html).attr('disabled', disabled ? 'disabled' : '');
> 	// patch for jQuery>1.6ish:
> 	$(this).html(html).prop('disabled', disabled);
242c245,246
<       $(ajaxElements).attr('disabled', true);
---
> 	  // attr->prop for jQuery 1.6+
>       $(ajaxElements).prop('disabled', true);

Rich

Chrome element panel work around

Posted by mennonot on May 15, 2012 at 3:55am

Similarly, I successfully used the Chrome elements panel to delete disable tag from the 'disabled="disabled"' property from the select element.

Same Problem

Posted by skadu on August 4, 2011 at 5:35pm

I had this issue on a 7.0 install and had updated to 7.7 to try and fix it but that did not help. The issue is that the dropdown list never gets populated with widget choices. I disabled jquery_update and the problem has been solved. Not sure where to point the blame though.

~Cooper

Same probleme

Posted by churel on August 16, 2011 at 9:31am

In my point of view jquery update change the behavior of empty string. So here a patch

Index: modules/field_ui/field_ui.js
===================================================================
--- modules/field_ui/field_ui.js	
+++ modules/field_ui/field_ui.js	
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
       html += '<option value="' + value + '"' + (is_selected ? ' selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + text + '</option>';
     });

-    $(this).html(html).attr('disabled', disabled ? 'disabled' : '');
+    $(this).html(html).attr('disabled', disabled ? 'disabled' : false);
   });
 };

Clément Hurel

Thanks. This snippet saved the day.

Posted by charged on August 16, 2011 at 2:11pm

Thanks. This snippet saved the day.

thanks in advance!

Great patch!

Posted by ceefour on October 31, 2011 at 4:11pm

Wow! This should be submitted to Drupal Core!

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Reported as bug

Posted by ceefour on October 31, 2011 at 4:24pm

Bug report here:

http://drupal.org/node/1327440

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Thanks!

Posted by dready2011 on April 6, 2012 at 11:15am

This saved me hours of debugging!!!!

can't find Display type in Multiple field settings

Posted by iancu35 on March 7, 2012 at 12:31pm

beside this issue caused by jquery_update, I have to report another problem, caused by it (in my opinion)

For an image field within a view, when I choose Multiple field settings it doesn't unfold any menu for Display type: Unordered list | Ordered list | Simple separator - doesn't appear any option

I don't know how to solve it.

Many thanks for all you have contributed to the widget issue, so far