The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.While creating the block reference cck field, among 'Regions containing blocks that can be referenced: '
the 'Disabled' blocks is also displayed .when i make a node and including a block under displayed ...its not shown...
is this normal behaviour?
Use case-Need a block to be shown nowhere except inside a node using 'Block Reference'.Is this possible?
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Comment #1
danielb commentedOh man you're right, I had no idea.
Comment #2
danielb commentedI have changed this in the 1.9 version.
Comment #3
danielb commentedComment #4
nirvanajyothi commentedyup..its working now. 'Disabled Blocks' can be referenced too.
Thank you danielb.
Comment #5
Anonymous (not verified) commentedAutomatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
Comment #6
Macronomicus commentedJust had the same problem with the latest build ... only slightly different.
My block was disabled BUT did not have [display on any page] selected in the block configuration.
It had a leftover ... [display only on the listed pages] setup that staid with the block even though I disabled it.
So the block would not display until I set [display on any page] in the block settings
There must be some way to usurp that power away from the block so that irregardless of visibility settings it will show through a block reference.
Hell it might even be cool to be able to set the visibility settings from within the block reference. But that might take some crazy code to accomplish.
Comment #7
danielb commentedI cannot reproduce this, it works for me even if it's disabled and has block visibility settings pointing elsewhere.
Comment #8
danielb commentedIf you continue to encounter this with the latest releases, please start a new issue.