Template Module Positions - Display Issues Topic is solved

[PhilOSparta]

Under the Template: Options there is a selection for Preview Module Positions. When this is Enabled and the URL of the site is appended with ?tp=1, the occupied positions are displayed.

Casiopeia has 16 positions, but only 5 are displayed when no modules are loaded on the page. i.e. topbar, below-top, breadcrumbs, main-top, main-bottom and debug.
In Joomla! V3 all positions were displayed even without modules assigned to them thus giving the web site designer the knowledge of all position locations whether they were occupied or not.

Is there any way in V4 to turn on Preview of all positions without loading a dummy module into each and every one?
Is it possible that this is a template specific issue?

[Jaydot]

Are you sure J!3 displayed all module positions with or without content? I don't think it did, but I could be wrong.

Anyway, I don't know the answer to your questions, but I wanted to know where the positions were too, so I pulled all the html out of Cassiopeia's index.php to see...

Here's the result: https://jaydot.nl/artikelen/joomla-4/ca ... -positions

[Per Yngve Berg]

The template uses the countmodules() function to deside if a module position shall be shown.

[brian]

@philosparta I consider this change in behaviour to be a bug. You are quite correct that there is no point in the preview if you can't see everything. Please can you report this on the issue tracker https://issues.joomla.org

@per guess you missed the point of the preview feature

[Per Yngve Berg]

I did not missed the point.

The countmodules() must return 1 when Preview is on.

[PhilOSparta]

@jaydot Thanks for your link. That's very helpful.
@brian - I've taken your request and submitted a report. ( My first )
https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/36071

[brian]

Thank you

[brian]

I have identified the bug (related to module cache) and hopefully it will be fixed shortly

[PhilOSparta]

This problem has just been fixed in release 4.0.6.