Hi guys,
strange thing happened. I can't choose "Block" from the "add display" - menue.
See attachments (View2 = editing an existing view. The same problem occurs in the "list" view = View1).
The english term "Block" is equal to the german one.

Any ideas how to solve this?
Thx .... Cilline

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Views1.png212.62 KBCilline
Views2.png65.17 KBCilline

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merlinofchaos commented
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Well, Views1.png doesn't really matter much. That type is the base table, i.e, node, user, etc. It wouldn't show blocks anyway.

What happens if you enable a default view like the popular view that provides blocks? Does that view completely break?

The only way I can imagine the block type disappearing is if some module is somehow removing that plugin. It's vaguely possible a contrib module is somehow at fault here for accidentally overriding the 'block' display type. Did something you added recently add a new display type to Views? You do have a couple of extra display types there. Maybe one of them is badly implemented?

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Cilline commented

Thx merlinofchaos for your answer.
I checked and tested a few things. No success. The "Block"-type seems completely gone, no matter what I do. Guess some other module killed it. Is there a chance if I deactivate the views module and reinstall it via ftp?
Regards, Cilline

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merlinofchaos commented

Ok, this is kind of a cheesy way to test to see if something has overriden the block type with something else, but create a new view. Add one display of every type to the view. Then visit the theme: information page (or hover over the tabs) to see what the actual IDs of the new displays are. If one of them shows up as block_1 then that is overwriting the real block display.

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dawehner
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed

OMG:

Block is translated with "sperren".

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Cilline commented

O RLY?
Hast du etwas Sinnvolles zur Problemlösung beizutragen?

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Cilline commented
Status: Fixed » Active
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dawehner
Primary language German
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Status: Active » Fixed

There is no reason to speak german here, sorry everyone should be able to understand it.

Translation of #5:

Did you posted something useful to fix the issue?

See http://drupal.org/files/issues/Views2_0.png

There is "sperren" availible as part of the select list. If you translate "sperren" back to english you get "block" which is what you want.

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Cilline commented

@dereine
read my post carefully. I don't want to block a view rather than to generate a block typed view, i.e. a view that appears in a block. Got it?
Thx. Cilline

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Cilline commented
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dawehner
Primary language German
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Status: Active » Fixed

I know you want to add a display of type "block". But you seems to missunderstand me.

But someone translated "block" with "sperren". So in http://drupal.org/files/issues/Views2_0.png you see "sperren", even technical it's still display type "block". Please switch to english in your drupal installation and there will be "block".

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Cilline commented

Oh no, I don't believe it. I'll check at the weekend. If you are right, thanks a lot ... and to the german translators I give a :-(
Cilline

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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