The Page Manager module in the Ctools suite prevents the Content tab from being hidden

Hi tcoker.

Not a stupid question. I would try clearing the cache to see if that works. Search Lucene API is supposed to clear the cache for you when you select that option, but for one reason or another it may not have. Specifically you will want to clear the menu cache. Let me know if it doesn't work.

Thanks,
Chris

Hmm. Tricky one. I cannot seem to replicate the issue on a development site or a production site that Search Lucene API 6.x-2.0-beta5 is installed on. Behind the scenes, Search Lucene API makes use of hook_menu_alter() to hide the search tab and redirect all search queries from search/node/ to search/luceneapi_node/. It is possible that another custom module or contributed module has a conflicting hook_menu_alter()?

Welcome to Drupal :-). It took me 4 months to actually start liking Drupal, so I hope you have reached that point as well. Sometimes a good debugging tool is to disable half the modules and see if the problem persists. If so, disable the other half. Then you can narrow down where the conflict is. Please share your findings, because if it is a problem with Search Lucene API I want to fix it. If anyone else is seeing this problem, please post!

Thanks,
Chris

Great job tracking that down, and I greatly appreciate you posting your findings. You have peeked my curiosity, and I am going to look into ctools to see what could have caused the conflict.

Thanks again,
Chris

I would like to note that I am experiencing the same issue -- but am not able to resolve it by disabling and re-enabling ctools. It does work when ctools is disabled (Page Manager specifically) but the content tab returns once it is re-enabled. This is using Search Lucene API 6.x-2.0-rc1 and CTools 6.x-1.2

I see what is going on. The page_manager_search_menu_alter() function in ctools/page_manager/plugin/tasks/search.inc is conflicting with the hook_menu_alter() implementation in Search Lucene API that hides the content tab. The attached patch fixes the problem, but eliminates the "Redirection status code:" options that redirects calls to search/node to search/luceneapi_node. I have half a mind to eliminate this setting anyways as it is probably best done on the .htaccess layer. What do you guys think? After applying the patch, the menu cache will have to be cleared.

Awesome work narrowing this problem down,
Chris

This implementation is actually more correct. The one above will throw errors.

Apologies,
Chris

Applied in commit #300938.

Great! Thanks for the bug report and the confirmation that the fix worked.