I Lost My ' Edit ' Buttons

[G Ollison]

The site is clonebtwdallas.ning.com -- a test site for my main site. Here's the action as best I recall ..

1. I was experimenting with customizing the site's main css file directly and and the html using firebug a few weeks ago when i lost my properly laid-out Ningbar leaving the elements stacked instead of horizontal. (css?) [ while the ningbar was wacky I still had 'edit' buttons and used them to test content in modules. ]
2. I got the proper Ningbar layout back by re-applying the theme days later after, but logged in to do tests days after that & noticed no edit buttons available. Immediately logged into main site to see if it was a system issue but its edit buttons were there.

Thanks for whatever help can come.

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi G,

The edit buttons usually won't appear if you've got a javascript error on the page, so have a look for that; it can often be caused by javascript in a text box.

Thanks,
Phil

[G Ollison]

Thanks Phil, looking now.

Galen

[G Ollison]

Removed all text boxes through Features, Phil. No effect - no buttons.

Any other hint will be welcome, otherwise looking throgh code in Firebug will be a needle in a haystack experience, eh?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Galen,

if you're running firebug then it should show you the error right in the console along with a red error icon in the right hand corner of the browser status bar. If you have no luck message me with the address of the network.

Thanks,
Phil

[G Ollison]

Phil, didn't mean to be so slow. Auto repair issues & "other" filled the days since your reply.
I opened firebug to inspect the site, clicked on every area and sub area, individual modules, columns, column groups ... Firebug seems to give a clean bill of health to the code.

Any other approaches or should I just abandon this as a victim of my tweaking. I have created another site as a kind of 'sandbox'. Is cloning an app a thing of the past? For a long time now I have found no way to nor search result for 'clone' nor 'cloning'.

Appreciate your help.

Galen

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Galen,

I've taken another look at this and I believe that you're using some css in the tracking code area which may be hiding the edit button. If you can go to Manage then Track Statistics and clear out the contents of that box, you should see the edit buttons again.

Social networks can't be cloned like early Ning apps could; they share a common codebase, and this allows us to update the code across almost all of the networks on Ning, whereas the old style Ning applications were separate from one another.

Thanks,
Phil

[G Ollison]

Phil, THAT DID IT!! Bad css in the tracking code area was the culprit.

You're a genius. Thank you very much, my friend!

Galen