Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.The Node Edit form has a vertical tabs area, which provides options such as "Revision Information", "Authoring Information", "Publishing Options" etc.
Contrib modules such as Node Hierarchy and XML sitemap can add custom tabs to this area.
In the past, with Drupal 7 & Panels, Vertical Tabs from Contrib Modules were accessible in Panels via the "Form" section of "Panels > Add Content".
However, I am creating a new Drupal 7 site and I can no longer access Vertical Tabs from Contrib modules. Only the tabs from Code Drupal modules are shown.
Steps I have tried to overcome the problem:
1) I have made a fresh install with just Panels and Node Hierarchy.
I have made a second fresh install with just Panels and Xml Sitemap.
In both cases, Vertical Tabs from Contrib modules are not accessible.
2) I have tried installing Node Vertical Tab Elements. It too only gives access to core tabs (and not tabs added by Contrib modules).
3) I have tried upgrading my older Drupal 7 sites to the latest versions of Drupal 7. In these older sites, the Vertical Tabs from Contrib modules are still accessible, so I am not sure if this means a special setting is required to access the tabs. I have disabled all custom themes and modules on the site, so I know the tabs are not coming from custom code.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Comments
Comment #1
big_smile CreditAttribution: big_smile commentedFor the above post: The issue is related to Ctools 7.13 as downgrading to 7.12 fixes the problem.
Comment #2
fxfx CreditAttribution: fxfx commentedThis issue is confirmed and really anoying
Comment #3
kscheirerI'm confused about the version numbers listed, we're at 7.x-1.12 now (in 2017). Is this still an issue with 7.x-1.12?
Comment #4
rivimeyComment #5
rivimey@big_smile, you are talking about "nodes" having a vertical tabs area, but a vertical tab is something implemented by a theme, not Drupal core. The vertical tabs used for the Node Edit form in the default Drupal admin theme -- Seven -- are a presentation of fieldsets present in Admin forms: see form_process_fieldset() in forms.inc. Contrib modules
In playing around with Mini-panels, I am wondering whether you have remembered to add in the needed "context" and "relationships" for the node-edit form when the panel is set up, and this is why your older versions are ok -- the needed configuration is still present.
If that's not the thing, could you be very clear in what you configured and what you expected to happen, preferably with (a small number of) screenshots?
As @kscheirer says the ctools project version numbers are all over the place. For reference:
- ctools-7.x-1.12 is the latest version of ctools;
- ctools-7.x-1.x-dev is the current development branch, which includes quite a few changes to 1.12.
- ctools-7.x-1.13 has not (yet) been released, so there is no 1.13.
The 'Version' tag in an issue is used to indicate the version in which a fix will appear, so almost always 7.x-1.x-dev for a D7 module because numbered releases are never modified.
Comment #6
MustangGB CreditAttribution: MustangGB commented