Views not showing all all field options

Question

Problem: I'm trying to add Views Filters to this display, but I cannot see any of the fields attached to this Content Type.

Question: How may I create exposed filters on these two fields Showcase City and Showcase Field (shown below) if views does not see them? How do I begin to debug a situation like this?

Managed Fields tab of Content Type

Manage Display tab of the Content Type:

But I cannot see them as options in Views...

Filtered for all Content Fields:

I also attempted to package them into a Feature to move along the Dev-Stage-Prod chain:

Updates based on additional information from answers or comments

Based on a suggestion below I created the following hook:

/**
 * Implements hook_field_views_data_alter().
 */
function debug_field_views_data_alter(&$result, $field, $module) {

  $string = implode(',', array_keys($result));
  $filtered = strstr($string, 'showcase_headshot');

  if (strlen($filtered) > 1) {
    //dsm($filtered);
    dsm($field);
  }
}

Which allowed me to see this:

jQuery Update Module settings:

Export of the view:

$view = new view();
$view->name = 'nominal_showcase';
$view->description = '';
$view->tag = 'default';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->human_name = 'nominal Showcase';
$view->core = 7;
$view->api_version = '3.0';
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */

/* Display: Master */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Master', 'default');
$handler->display->display_options['css_class'] = 'theatre-nominal-showcase-wrapper';
$handler->display->display_options['use_more_always'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['access']['type'] = 'perm';
$handler->display->display_options['cache']['type'] = 'none';
$handler->display->display_options['query']['type'] = 'views_query';
$handler->display->display_options['exposed_form']['type'] = 'basic';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['type'] = 'full';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['items_per_page'] = '12';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['offset'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['id'] = '0';
$handler->display->display_options['pager']['options']['quantity'] = '9';
$handler->display->display_options['style_plugin'] = 'default';
$handler->display->display_options['row_plugin'] = 'fields';
/* Field: Content: Title */
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['field'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['label'] = '';
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['word_boundary'] = FALSE;
$handler->display->display_options['fields']['title']['alter']['ellipsis'] = FALSE;
/* Sort criterion: Content: Post date */
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['id'] = 'created';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['field'] = 'created';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['created']['order'] = 'DESC';
/* Sort criterion: Content: Title */
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['id'] = 'title';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['sorts']['title']['field'] = 'title';
/* Filter criterion: Content: Published */
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['id'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['field'] = 'status';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['value'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['group'] = 1;
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['status']['expose']['operator'] = FALSE;
/* Filter criterion: Content: Type */
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['id'] = 'type';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['table'] = 'node';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['field'] = 'type';
$handler->display->display_options['filters']['type']['value'] = array(
  'nominal_showcase_page' => 'nominal_showcase_page',
);

/* Display: nominal Showcase Block */
$handler = $view->new_display('block', 'nominal Showcase Block', 'block_1');

Answer 1

If you're running on a dev environment which uses memcached for caching then views can occasionally not display all the fields because of caching issues.

Possible solutions are to:

1. Set: $conf['cache_class_cache_views'] = 'DrupalDatabaseCache';

This means views will no longer use memcached for a cache bin.

2. In views Views 7.x-3.7+ disable views data caching in the advanced menus.

This will probably heavily impact your performance if you're relying on views caching.

3. Run the older memcache extension instead of memcached.

This was the solution I ended up using by accident because I was already running memcache and so managed to avoid the issue on my live machine and only run into it on my dev machine.

The Drupal thread is here.

Answer 2

Data about eligible fields is compiled and cached by Views using hook_views_data() and hook_views_data_alter().

Since your "Content:" group is showing only base properties and no fields at all, that leads me to believe that the problem you're seeing happened during the views_data compile process.

Views module implements "field_views_data()" on behalf of Field module to read that information. That would be a good place to start debugging. Put debug breakpoints or dpm() calls inside that function and clear all caches, then revisit the edit interface for the view. See if you can figure out why the function may not be returning any $data.

Answer 3

Any chance that there's some jquery bug involved here? I remember times, when just things like that happened with the wrong jquery version...

https://www.drupal.org/node/1869988