To verify this issue, I've setup a fresh Drupal 6.17 install on my localhost, which has worked with numerous other sites. I then installed Panels 3.7, Ctools 1.7 and Views 2.11, and enabled the correct settings for each one. I then created a bunch of pages, and made a content pane in Views to list out said pages' titles. Created a panel page, but when I tried to select my views pane, it was nowhere to be found. If I clicked on the "Views" option, it just had "default" as an option. When I clicked on "Views Panes", the view was there, but when clicked on, there wasn't even a select box, just the two buttons.

I've looked around, and I haven't seen anybody else with this issue. Is this peculiar to me? I've replicated twice now, on two different servers, so I'd be surprised if this is somehow limited to me. This is quite critical, because without this functionality, Panels are pretty much useless for me, at least with regards to my current project.

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Last’s picture

Component: Plugins system » Miscellaneous
rupl’s picture

Experiencing similar symptoms on a fresh install. I believe Panels is somehow automatically selecting the last content pane available in the View. I added three Content Pane displays to a view, all with different pane settings exposed to quickly ID them, and tried adding a content pane to Panels after the creation of each display. It faithfully loaded the last display each time, skipping the Display dropdown and going straight to pane configuration. Other displays load into Panels as expected, e.g. selecting Views instead of View panes, and selecting a Page or Block display from the dropdown before configuring.

I checked the error logs but there's nothing. If there's more error data I could provide (using devel?) please give me instructions to go about doing that.

Last: the window only shows 'Finish' and 'Cancel' because you probably haven't touched Pane settings » Allow settings in your Views content pane display. When I enable settings, the configuration window pushes the correct settings through; it just skips the part where you select a Views display.

merlinofchaos’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

When I clicked on "Views Panes", the view was there, but when clicked on, there wasn't even a select box, just the two buttons.

Unless you have something enabled on the 'Allow settings' or in the 'Arguments' section of the content pane, there will not be anything you can actually set when you add the view pane. It will be configured as you have it in the pane.

If you have multiple content panes in the same display, they should each have their own entry in content.

but when I tried to select my views pane, it was nowhere to be found.

This confuses me, because you said above that when you clicked on Views panes it was there.

This is one of those bug reports that would really benefit by you explaining what you expected versus what you got.

mwadi’s picture

I have the same problem since ctools 1.6 :(
my web site contains views which have multi-display with it.
now when i try to add views display to panel page or panel node, drupal just shows me the default display and it ignores the others :(

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2549/905d8395ac7f4961bad43c8.png
http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/9468/1a65ef9bf7314e938649ff7.png

merlinofchaos’s picture

Your second image in #4 shows a closed select box. If you took the screenshot with it open that might be more meaningful. And showing the screenshot of the view with displays in it would help too.

Last’s picture

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Hi Merlin, thanks for the reply!

I've taken some screenshots of what I'm talking about, I know it wasn't massively clear.

  • views-page.png, that's what my view looks like. Two content panes, one block and one context, just so I could see if the rest of it was pulling through.
  • panel-page.png is..the panel page :P
  • panel_page_add_views.png is when I attempt to add the view, as in Panels 3.3
  • panel_page_add_views2.png - this is the first problem, the block and the context appear, but not the content panes
  • panel_page_add_views_panes.png - I then clicked on the "Views Pane" option. The only option is "page_list".
  • panel_page_add_views_panes2.png - this is what I see when I click on "page_list" in the previous screen.

I hope this makes a bit more sense. So, it seems as if there's no place to actually pick the content pane, unless I'm missing something obvious. Any ideas?

merlinofchaos’s picture

Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

In http://drupal.org/files/issues/panel_page_add_views_panes.png that view that appears? That's the content pane as you named it in the category you gave it as per http://drupal.org/files/issues/views_page.png -- since you left the defaults, it is simply named as the view name 'page_list' in the category 'views panes'. It would be easier to see what's going on if you'd change those settings, because then you'd see the text change in the add content dialog.

Since the view shows http://drupal.org/files/issues/views_page.png "Allow settings: none" there are no settings on the configuration page.

Since content panes appear separately, the content pane displays are specifically excluded from the 'view' type since that leaves *two* ways they can be added and that caused a ton of issues to be added.

Last’s picture

Wooaaah, OK. Changed the admin title, and it popped up in the Views Pane. Hectic, I didn't realise things had changed that much from the previous Ctools/Panels. Or at least, if that functionality was always there, I had never used it, and it threw me for a loop. Thanks for your help!

merlinofchaos’s picture

That functionality has been there since the beginning of CTools I think.

pwaterz’s picture

I was experiencing the same issue as described above. I think this is a bug in a way. Because if you choose to use the view name for multiple displays, then the content panes will never be separated. Maybe having it be {view-name}-1 {view-name}-2 etc... might make it a little less confusing. Either way panels is AWESOME!! Thanks for the great work!!

merlinofchaos’s picture

It's not a bug in the sense that it's your responsibility to change the name if you've got several content panes on a display. The assumption is that the view name, itself, is not a very descriptive name but that's what you've got.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

sanguis’s picture

Component: Miscellaneous » User interface
Category: support » feature
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

So I need to hop on this and say that I also found the current configurations confusing, also if there is more then once content pane then none show up so its causes confusion.
It is a workable atm but it would be good to add a warning if there is more then one content pane showing the same name so that a user can know to change that.

summit’s picture

Hi, I read all above and still have a strange situation with not showing the content panes through the pagemanager.
I have a setup using latest stable panels, views, display suite and ctools.

I have two ways of using the panel-panes.
1) Through the use of pagemanager and importing panels, building custom panels, using taxonomy term/ node override
2) Through the use of display suite and using the panels-pane interface.

Somehow using the second method all views content panes show up. But using the first method no new content panes show up. Only 2 very old one...

What could be the problem?
Do you need images with this issue?

greetings, Martijn

summit’s picture

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Hi,
Two images to support #15.
Image one: Scenario 1 is the pagemanager situation (1) which does not show correctly the view panes.
Image two: Scenario 2 is the display suite situation (2) which show correctly the view panes.

Greetings,
Martijn

merlinofchaos’s picture

My best guess is that you do not have a node context available.

Ashlar’s picture

Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

In order to assist you we need additional information including the type of page panel (term, node etc), its path, any selection criteria, relationships and contexts. Please review the drupal.org/node/571990 'Submission Checklist' for the type of information we are looking for. If we cannot duplicate your problem we cannot fix it, so tell us the steps necessary to recreate the problem. When you post information, please change the status back to active. Thanks.

summit’s picture

Hi, I think I first try to add the node context as Earl advises.
If that is not working, I will bring on the additional information.
Thanks for reminding me!
greetings, Martijn

esmerel’s picture

Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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