My custom widget navigation tab keeps disappearing

[Gianni D]

I have made sure that the widget id, version and even display/title names are different than our test network. isEnabled keeps reverting back to 0 on that private configuration file.

[Gianni D]

And again it happened. This sucks. I dont want to keep uploading that xml file from the private folder to have to fix the disappearing tab.

[Phil McT]

I've noticed that in the past when I've been doing development.

I'm not 100% sure why it happens - and I can ask at HQ for you - but I ended up editing /lib/XG_ModuleHelper.php to add the navigation.

[Gianni D]

good solution. So you hard coded it? does the widget get overridden?

[Gianni D]

again this morning...

[Gianni D]

What function in ning is changing the "widget"-private-configuration.xml file isEnabled parameter.... This is a hassle.

[Phil McT]

Thinking back to when I saw the same issue on my site, I concluded that it was because I didn't write the 'drag and drop' embed bit that would let me add it as a 'feature' on my site.

I think when you add another feature, it resets the 'is enabled' flags for all widgets but those dragged on as a feature.

[Phil McT]

Yes, hard coded. The 'instance' file isn't used then for adding the tab. It works more like the invite tab.

[Gianni D]

I had not added the "feature" into the site from the manage area. We had created a feature for our widget but did not think it was necessary for it to maintain the tab at top. I placed it lets see if the tab stays.