Suddenly unable to see select boxes - by user role

[ferbit]

Issue Overview

Some of my users suddenly reported today they couldn't see any select boxes in the pods I created for them. This is both simple custom defined lists as well as relational lists. I can see them just fine logging in as an admin, but as soon as I login as one of them, I can duplicate what's happening to them.

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[jimtrue]

@ferbit Did you do the Javascript Console test to see if you were seeing errors when were logged in as the users? What are you using for defining your Custom Roles?

[jimtrue]

@ferbit Found them! You dragged them into the area where the Package Export went. I fixed it.

[jimtrue]

@ferbit Can you do a simple test for me? Disable your other plugins except for Pods and see if it works properly for your users and then re-enable plugins one at a time until you find the one that conflicts. I'm seeing lots of errors above, but not a single name of a plugin :(

[ferbit]

Will do.

[jimtrue]

Thanks!!

[ferbit]

It's Caldera. I didn't deactivate all of my plugins, I just did that one because I remember updating it this morning. JS errors immediately stopped and all select fields loaded properly

[jimtrue]

Did it give a specific error with Caldera? I find it weird that logging in as Admin would make it not show the errors, though.

Does it sound like this error? https://github.com/CalderaWP/Caldera-Forms/issues/2448

[ferbit]

No, I don't see any errors like that. But yes, very odd. When I'm logged in as admin, I don't see any errors at all and am able to see select boxes just fine. But when logged in as one of my users with a custom role, only disabling the caldera plugin fixes it.

[jimtrue]

@ferbit My suggestion would be to bug this over at Caldera Forms and mention this GitHub ticket as well. We've been working very hard to make sure our jQuery is properly namespaced, so this might be something that was a compatibility issue with this update at CalderaForms.

[ferbit]

Apologies, but how do I "bug this over" to Caldera Forms? Do I start a new post and link to this one? Thanks so much for your help @jimtrue !

[jimtrue]

Yep @ferbit You'd open a new issue at their GitHub: https://github.com/CalderaWP/Caldera-Forms/issues/new and then just copy a link to this one in that one. That way @Shelob9 is aware of the issue.

[0xLBF]

I had the same JavaScript errors but in the Pods Template editor (WP 4.9.6, Caldera 1.6.3, Pods 2.7.3). This patch fixed it for me: https://github.com/CalderaWP/Caldera-Forms/pull/2535 .

[jimtrue]

Looks like you fixed Caldera Forms, huh @0xLBF ?

[0xLBF]

Quite possibly, but @Shelob9 probably needs to properly rebuild the .min.js files, not edit them directly like I did.

[jimtrue]

Since this one actually has nothing to do with us, I'm closing it as there's nothing we can do on our side to prevent whatever is causing the issue in Caldera Forms.