Mini panels should tell Drupal core they cannot be cached with block caching [#675844]

Hi,

I have created a mini panels block above my footer containing my contact info on the left side and my social media on the right.
As soon as I went live my display is not consistent. It is still shown on every page like I want it to however, sometimes the panels disappear and the data is displayed like it was never put on panels. I believe that the problem is only for anonymous users.

Could you please access my page (http://live-zakynthos.com) and hit a few pages until you see it. It's at the bottom of the page.
I also made a couple of screenshots for you to look. It's on my google albums.

Correct display: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Ci2ab9eBInUJgO8sDIR7Zw?authkey=Gv1s...
Incorrect display: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GrfIUpG7ueOl4Q8a0m-tqg?authkey=Gv1s...

Many thanks in advance

Comments

Comment #1

sp_key commented 6 January 2010 at 11:16

btw, I have flushed all cache

Comment #2

sp_key commented 12 January 2010 at 11:15

Found the problem.

Block Caching was enabled (which is recommended by drupal).
As soon as I disabled it mini panels was consistent throughout.

Is there any fix for this to allow us to use block caching as well?

Comment #3

merlinofchaos commented 16 January 2010 at 16:57

Title:

Mini Panels display is inconsistent in different pages

» Mini panels should tell Drupal core they cannot be cached with block caching

The problem is that block caching does not catch 'out of band' data, which is the CSS that the mini panel needs.

Panels have their own caching mechanism. If you use that mechanism it will catch the CSS data and cache successfully. You will not be able to use block caching with mini panels.

Adding a feature request because I think our hook_block definition can disable that feature, and we definitely should do that.