header/footer never rendered when view result is empty

Hmm. A work around would be to place something in the empty text, even if it is just a space. This patch does make some level of sense but I am not sure I like having to manually check this stuff.

In fact, no. The *intent* is that panes hide themselves if there is no content, unless there is an empty text or the style says to render even if empty.

Ok, I'm convinced to think about this. However, the check is too complex where it is.

There could be other reasons that other displays have for choosing whether or not to display, so the logic should be made into a method that can easily be overridden by the display and thus more easily used in other situations.

I think Views has to provide the mechanism properly.

I've marked this as an unassigned task. If anyone would like to role up their sleeves and take it upon themselves to write a patch it would be awesome

I have no run into the same problem. The footer is not rendered. I tried to fix this but the its a deep problem.

modules/ctools/views_content/plugins/content_types/views.inc
line 211:

  if (empty($view->result) && !$view->display_handler->get_option('empty') && empty($view->style_plugin->definition['even empty'])) {
    return;
  }

Here is the break. Maybe we could add a check here if the footer / header is not empty and then render the pane.

hi ayalon i spoke with merlinofchaos about your attempt on irc, here are his comments

(10:09:23 PM) merlinofchaos: iamjon-home: Ahh. Ok, what I want there is for views itself to have an easy function to call that compiles all of those checks, that any display can just use. It's probably a method on the basic views_plugin_display
(10:10:13 PM) merlinofchaos: Something like $display::result_is_empty() or something
(10:10:23 PM) merlinofchaos: And it passes checks through to everything that matters.
(10:10:33 PM) merlinofchaos: Maybe it should be on view
(10:10:46 PM) merlinofchaos: if ($view->result_is_empty()) { return; }

Hope this helps

Closing from a lack of activity.

Curious why this was closed due to "lack of activity", as the bug remains, and is easy to reproduce.

There is another issue about the exact same topic: #1217394: Change notice: "Display even if view has no result" not working though i doubt this method can be used for views2