Is this a bug or not implemented?

I made a minipanel with 3 tabs: a welcome message, a list and a node. The welcome message is entered inside the mini-panels environment with "New custom content". The style is selected to "System block". The node is showing up as a normal block (like a node). However, the welcome message is just printed as 'pure text' in a panel and not as a System Block (as configured in the mini-panels). When i want the same theme for the welcome message, i could make a node and link to it .. But i want to understand what i'm doing wrong.

How can i achieve that text entered in the mini-panels is shown as a block? (The answer is NOT: selecting block in the panels environment. When doing this, the tabs are shown inside the block instead of outside!)

The welcome message (entered with "New custom content") ...
http://picasaweb.google.nl/lh/photo/2nkKvsUjHOUYSxgws2Tv0A?authkey=Gv1sR...

... should like this node (almost the same as a block)
http://picasaweb.google.nl/lh/photo/ahs50R37XgtSPYYz1XqzQA?authkey=Gv1sR...

Comments

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Most likely it is the fault of the theme; many themes assume that blocks will only appear in the sidebar, and the CSS does not properly trigger if a block is placed in the main content area. So treating a pane as a system block doesn't always appear to work properly. This must be fixed in the theme.

MatthijsG’s picture

MatthijsG commented
Status: Fixed » Active

If you know what the error is, maybe you can provide more info what to do? Add some divs? If this is a problem in 'many themes' some help would be nice ;-)

merlinofchaos’s picture

merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

You will most likely need to adjust the CSS. Without knowing anything about the theme, there's know way of telling for sure what classes and ids it uses, but I've found that some themes assume that blocks will be in the sidebar region. If you adjust the CSS to remove the sidebar regions from the CSS declarations for the blocks, you might be able to get it to work.

That's really all I can suggest, because themes do things the way they want.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.