I created three new content types after installing CCK 5.x-1.5 in my Drupal 5.1 installation yesterday. Used fields (obviously), made groups, tried different things. Then I installed Views 5.x-1.6-beta5. Still OK. Today, boot up and drive myself crazy trying to find Add Fields. Finally find it by viewing Source on various Content Type editing pages. Edit, Manage Fields, Display Fields, Add Field, Add Group, Template li's are all present in source but not visible on page:

<!----><div id="tabs-wrapper" class="clear-block">
<h2 class="with-tabs">NewCo Page</h2>
<ul class="tabs primary">
<li><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco">Edit</a></li>
<li class="active"><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco/fields" class="active">Manage fields</a></li>
<li><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco/display">Display fields</a></li>
<li><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco/add_field">Add field</a></li>
<li><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco/add_group">Add group</a></li>
<li><a href="/admin/content/types/page-newco/template">Template</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

"NewCo Page" shows up, properly formatted. Tabs on other pages with class "tabs-primary" show up fine. If I hover over the far right corner of the enclosing div, I can get a link to Edit but none of the others. I just wasted an hour trying to find where these tabs were supposed to be - as a newbie, I had assumed I was just going to the wrong page to manage fields. I can get to the right page by entering the url manually, but it's not very convenient, especially with my very bad memory.

I can't find any other mention of this problem at drupal.org so I hope someone can help. I can't see why Views (or anything, for that matter) so am hesitating before trying to remove that module.

Any help very much appreciated!
Thanks.
www.planoandsimple.com

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carpe_annum’s picture

carpe_annum commented

Other modules added post-CCK in addition to Views: email, links, date, imagefield, computed field as recommended but have only used imagefield in addition to standard fields in new content types. Thanks!

carpe_annum’s picture

carpe_annum commented

I have disabled the CCK modules (email, link, computed field, etc.) and the Views module. There are no records in cache_views although it came that way, I didn't clear it. The other dbase cache tables I haven't touched - should I truncate one or more of them? Or do I need to revert to an earlier backup? I have a recent one but for various reasons restoring the database is a great big hairy pain in the derriere so I'd like to avoid it if I can.
Thanks.

carpe_annum’s picture

carpe_annum commented

After rebooting twice, the tabs now show up in FF2... but still not in IE6.

I thought maybe the problem had to do with the fact that the title of the page and the tabs can't fit all on one line as they can elsewhere:

e.g., in admin > content > book, the title is:
Books and there are two tabs, List and Orphan Pages so it all fits easily on one line;

in admin > content > types > page-newco, the title is:
NewCo Page and the tabs are Edit, Manage Fields, Display Fields, Add Field, Add Group and Template. In FF2, these tabs appear below NewCo Page.

When I disable contemplate (i.e., remove the Template tab), the tabs reappear (at last!) in IE6, so I guess it *is* an issue of not being able to fit everything in one line. But I would like to use contemplate!

So I tried editing the Admin page.tpl.php to try to force a new line between the page title and the tabs. I tried a
, then a

, then a

and finally

should be a break here

to see if I could force the tabs to appear on their own row. Each one added space in both browsers but in IE6 nothing happened with respect to the tabs becoming visible.

Any other ideas? How can I make IE6 not break due to too many tabs?? Especially since it has no problem doing so with secondary navigation (see blue links at, for instance, www.planoandsimple.com/node/14)!

Thank you!!

carpe_annum’s picture

carpe_annum commented

FYI, both the regular and admin themes for this site are based on Aberdeen, which I chose primarily for its standards compliance.
Thx!

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jcruz commented

I ran into a similar problem. Installed CCK 5.x-1.5 and Views 5.x-1.6-beta5. I created a new content type and everything worked fine for the first day. Then after not changing anything (as far as I can tell) the Manage fields, Display fields, Add field, and Add group tabs all disappeared. In additional, my custom fields disappeared from the nodes themselves.

I re-saved the content type and everything seems to be working again for now. I just hope this is not a re-occurring problem.

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yched commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

@jcruz : your problems does not seem related - please read carefully the description provided for an issue before saying 'me too' :-)

@carpe_annum : This is a bug in the Aberdeen you are using - it should handle the fact that page titles can get long and / or the number of tabs can get high...
CCK can't (and shouldn't) handle this instead of the theme.

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snobojohan commented

/* white-space: nowrap; */

Comment out the nowrap on line 216 in system css

ul.primary {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  padding: 0 0 0 0.5em;
  /* white-space: nowrap; */