I've installed the Views module, and I'm adding a view to my Drupal site.

I'm following along with the instructions, and entering the info on the "Add a view" screen. The problem is, when I get to the Fields and Filters sections of the GUI, there are no buttons or dropdowns there. According to the instructions, I expect that I'll see a dropdown list of Field types, and an "Add" button.

Any ideas what's going on?

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digartner commented

I went back to my site today and somehow it is working. Now the dropdown list and "Add" button are working.

I am on a different computer today. Could that be the reason? Perhaps the version of IE on the other computer is not rendering the dropdown and button. Have you heard of any similar bugs?

I'll try again on the other computer and see if it works there now.

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merlinofchaos commented

There have been reports that IE7, for some reason, isn't rendering these parts of the View UI. I don't have IE7 to test, and other people with IE7 have not seen the problem; I have not yet figured out what the cause might be.

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

This needs IE7 testers.

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http://drupal.org/node/131918 was duplicate.

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Title: Cannot add Fields and Filters » IE7 weirdness: Cannot add Fields and Filters
Version: 5.x-1.5 » 5.x-1.x-dev
Category: support » bug
Priority: Normal » Critical

http://drupal.org/node/159716
http://drupal.org/node/121197
http://drupal.org/node/145890
http://drupal.org/node/172758
http://drupal.org/node/131924 (maybe)

All duplicates.

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http://drupal.org/node/209727
and this

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merlinofchaos commented

BTW, all confirmed reports of IE7 failures have also included WYSIWYG modules such as tinyMCE or FCKeditor, and the trouble has been traced to that javascript. If you have some form of WYSIWYG module installed, please be sure that it doesn't try to put its stuff on the Views edit form. I don't know why, but on IE7 this breaks.

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apratt commented

IE7 Weird is right...

I have disabled TinyMCE for the page (admin/build/views/add) and the first time I went to the page indeed the "enable rich text button was gone" and the dropdowns appeared properly. However if I refresh the page they disappear.

If it was just me I would say forget it and use Firefox. But I have a community of about twenty managers that need to be able to work with views in IE7.

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http://drupal.org/node/218184 was duplicate.

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retswerb commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

I'm having this issue too, although I don't have any of the above-mentioned modules installed -- the only non-core modules I'm running are CCK, Views, and Image. Works great in FF though, thanks for the solution.

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Ronald Andrew Murphy commented

Having same issue using IE7 in Drupal 5.7. Installed modules include: Tiny MCE 5.x.1.9, Views 5.x.1.6, MetaTags 5.x.1.5, Fivestar 5.x.1.12, Voting API 5.x.1.6, XML SiteMap 5.x.1.3, CCK 5.x.1.7 with computed, email, link and date.
Deactivated Date after reading another post elsewhere, but that didn't make any difference.
FireFox v3 works as it should so I've switched to that.

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egtalbot commented

Well, I am having this problem with Firefox 1.00.16 AND IE 7. I suppose I could download Chrome :)

I click the plus sign next to "Fields" and down below all I see is the dropdown and checkboxes with no text visible.

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merlinofchaos commented

This is a Drupal 5, Views 1 issue, egtalbot. You're describing Drupal 6, Views 2. Totally different.

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egtalbot commented

thanks Merlin. I did not see any posts on that issue in 6.x - is it a known issue, and if so do you have a link to a post/solution?

Thanks!

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esmerel commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

Issue handled for 5.x, no updates for more than 30 days.