When adding the "Node add form" context in CTools, it seems CTools has problems reading which content types exist on the site – there are no content types to select. (See attached screenshot.)

Tested with freshly downloaded devs of ctools and related modules. (Heck, even a fresh dev of Drupal core.)
Unqualified guess of what's wrong: It might be an effect of node types now being called content types more or less everywhere.

Sorry for not digging further into this right now.
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#14 Screenshot-3.png133.35 KBswentel
Node add form (7.x-dev 110329).png29.3 KBItangalo
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Itangalo’s picture

Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commented

Steps to reproduce:

* Enable Page manager
* Enable the template for node edit pages, add a variant
* Add a new context of the type "node add form"
-> You can't select which node type should be added

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jbucks CreditAttribution: jbucks commented

I'm having the exact same problem!

It happens when I try to add a Node Add context to the 'Node add/edit form' panel. The modal looks exactly the same as the screenshot attached at the top of this thread. When I click Finish, I get the following error messages:

Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in ctools_context_create_node_add_form() (line 53 of /sites/all/modules/ctools/plugins/contexts/node_add_form.inc).
Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in ctools_context_create_node_add_form() (line 53 of /sites/all/modules/ctools/plugins/contexts/node_add_form.inc).

I'm using Panels 7.x-3.0-alpha3 and Ctools 7.x-1.0-alpha4.

Thanks in advance!

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kyeranr CreditAttribution: kyeranr commented

I have the same issue here, same symptoms, same steps to reproduce.

Chaos tools 7.x-1.0-alpha4 and tested with 7.x-1.x-dev (2011-Apr-07)
Panels 7.x-3.0-alpha3 and 7.x-3.x-dev

Cheers.

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ilovemyson CreditAttribution: ilovemyson commented

i have same problem.

Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in ctools_context_create_node_add_form() (line 53 of C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\2trees\sites\all\modules\ctools\plugins\contexts\node_add_form.inc).
Warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in ctools_context_create_node_add_form() (line 53 of C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\2trees\sites\all\modules\ctools\plugins\contexts\node_add_form.inc).

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merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Wow that was a really dumb typo causing that. Committed, pushed. Clearly not enough people USE this functionality.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

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ann_meredith CreditAttribution: ann_meredith commented

Is there a patch for this since the 7.x-1.0-alpha4 version hasn't been updated yet?

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merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented

Is there a patch for this since the 7.x-1.0-alpha4 version hasn't been updated yet?

What do you mean yet? Released versions are never changed. That's why they have version numbers.

Use the -dev version.

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ann_meredith CreditAttribution: ann_meredith commented

Sorry, I didn't mean that I expected a new -alpha4 version. It was just a shorthanded way of saying that a non-development version had not been released since this issue had been addressed. My fault for not being clear about what I was saying (laziness on my part).

I was hoping there would be a way for me to fix this issue without switching over to the -dev version. It seems from your response that switching would be best course of action.

Thanks!

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Wappie08 CreditAttribution: Wappie08 commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Hi, I just updated to latest dev (panels and also views) using drush but I still cannot select a node type following #1.

Also I do not quite understand why one has to use the node-edit override, isn't it possible to add a block in a custom panels page (anymore)?


Greets Wappie

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merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented

Yes, for now you'll have to switch. I want to do a new release soonish but there's a lot to do.

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frankcarey CreditAttribution: frankcarey commented

Yeah, still not seeing this after updating to the 2011-05-11 3.x-dev release either.

Correction, I need to update ctools to 1.x-dev, not panels. Note that I now get a "Form goes here." instead of the actual node form when I use the Generic form content type.

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Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commented

Also trying to get this to work. After digging around a bit in ctools/plugins/content_types/form I conclude that $context->data is missing. The render functions for the plugins seem to expect that it holds some kind of form elements – not sure how it is intended.

Wish I could take this further, but I (yet) don't know enough.

When used on a regular node edit page it seems to work fine, but for edit nodes being loaded by path arguments or contexts it fails.

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swentel CreditAttribution: swentel commented
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This works perfectly here (well at least the selection)

Itangalo’s picture

Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commented

@swentel: Yes – I think the issue has progressed since the title was written. It is now possible to add the node edit context, but you still cannot render any parts of the forms.

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merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented

I have functioning node edit forms on my dev site, so I'm not sure what's wrong here.

Itangalo’s picture

Itangalo CreditAttribution: Itangalo commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I was recording a screencast demonstrating this bug – when I to my surprise found everything working.
Awesome.

There might be a problem with this feature at an edge case, which made me experience this "bug" yesterday. If that is the case, and I can understand it enough to describe the edge case, I'll open a new issue.

Case closed!

PS: Anyone still experiencing problems with this can check out the screencast at http://vimeo.com/24909591, to see that this feature actually works on a plain install. If you still have problems with this, open a new issue for it – and make sure to describe how your site differs from a plain install.

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merlinofchaos CreditAttribution: merlinofchaos commented

Thanks! If you find the edge case I would very much appreciate it!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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