Front-end editing not for fields on non-publish tabs

[benoitlemay]

Frontend edit- if the field is in a channel layout tab? When you frontend edit, the pane is empty. (aka I can't front-edit Grid Fields.. )
EE 7.5.1
PHP 7.4 (tried 8.3 also)

(Note- summary edited by Robin)

To replicate, grab a channel, make a layout, move a field or two over to a different tab- aka not the publish tab. That's it, now the field won't be editable on the frontend. Tried moving to the existing category tab, made a new tab, tried moving it to that. Either way, no edit.

Now- go frontend edit. When you click the pencil for the field in the tab, the edit modal shows a la:

There's no js error when you do this (no php errors either). BUT interestingly, if I go to edit another field on the page- one not in a tab- it opens fine, but now I get js errors!

--- original report below ---

Front-edit is enable for the field..

In my rendered page i can edit the title and many other fields... I see the pencil icon to edit the grid but modal is empty

In a test page.. (see image) i can edit the title.. but not the grid.. JUST TO CLARIFY.. THE DATE AND CODE (AFTER THE DATE) ARE IN THE GRID

There's no error in the Web Console.

[robinsowell]

Hrm, I just did a test on 7.5 and a grid comes up for me.

Are you getting any javascript errors? Do you have any other grid fields you can test with? I'm wondering if there's something specific about that grid.

[benoitlemay]

I have many grid field in the same channel... all are NOT working.. File Grid in an other channel is working great.. (need to move the file grid tag outside the tag but it works.. TEsting few things and a date field (inside the grid) show error..
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Tested with grid with only Input textarea, RTE and toggle and not working..Pencil is showing up but modal is empty NO error in the console

[robinsowell]

Hrm , ok, let's see if we can get a php error.

Can you do this- ftp in, go to system/user/ and create a writable folder called logs - then go to the config/config.php file and add this:

$config['log_date_format'] = 'Y-m-d H:i:s';
$config['log_threshold'] = '1';

So it should log errors to a file it creates in that new logs folder.

Go fire up frontend editing and open your grid field- anything?

Also- what add-ons are you using? Transcribe or Publisher? And big ones?

And it's weird- because the file grid shares a ton of code with the grid- surprised to see it working and grid not!

[benoitlemay]

Nothing is written in the log folder..
EE Addons are : Channel Video, Pro Var, Request, RTE..

More TESTS...
In Firefox (and Chrome) i got this error Uncaught TypeError: t.$refs[e] is undefined init https://dev.levoyagistedequebec.com/themes/ee/pro/js/fronteditor.min.js?v=2.1.0-1729621294:1 as soon as i click on a pencil .. BUT NOT THE FIRST TIME I LOAD THE PAGE..

[robinsowell]

REALLY WEIRD! Did you get a chance to turn on the php error logging? And if we don't get anything from that, you can hit me in support@expressionengine.com with superadmin login info and a link to a good example page and I'll login for a closer look.

But definite- see if the error logging gets us anything.

[benoitlemay]

Email sent

[robinsowell]

AHA- so I don't have it solved, but I can see what makes it happen.

Anything in a channel layout tab? Doesn't show in the edit pane on frontend editing.

So if I took admins off of your layout? Everything was editable.

If I made a duplicate of your field with no layout- everything editable. If I made a tab and moved the prix grid into the new tab? Blank pane inside the edit modal. SAME if I did it with a textarea field. So I don't even think it's a grid thing, I think it's purely a layout tab thing.

I'm going to tweak the bug report to make it more clear.