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“Add to Compare” doesn’t work [Solved]

Brett Total Posts: 121 Joined: 2007-12-01 Ignore user	When I try to add a product to compare, a green box appears near the top of the page saying the item has been successfully added to compare, but it is never added to the compare box. The compare box always says “You have no items to compare.” It was all working… The only add on I installed is the blog, which i removed to no avail. Is anyone else having this same issue?
	Posted: April 29 2010 \| top

Brett Total Posts: 121 Joined: 2007-12-01 Ignore user	What luck, it seems that enabling the caches (not sure which one) under Cache Management makes the compare work.
	Posted: April 29 2010 \| top \| # 1

fanis Total Posts: 72 Joined: 2009-11-24 Ignore user	I am having same problem. All of a sudden withought changing absolutely anything and no new module the new products wont appear on my frontpage and add to comapre doesnt work...i am adding products but the block stays empty. Any clues?
	Posted: July 9 2010 \| top \| # 2

fanis Total Posts: 72 Joined: 2009-11-24 Ignore user	Ok so if anyone ever comes up with something similiar with add to compare not working or new products not showing on homepage (even tho the block is there as you can see from display hints/block) just re index your website even tho it says everything is reindexed.
	Posted: July 12 2010 \| top \| # 3

guillaume7684 Total Posts: 239 Joined: 2008-10-20 Ignore user	Hello, I have exactly the same problem. My magento is 1.5.0.1 My theme is default-default No files are modified, all the files are originals. 1°/ When I insert a widget to display the new products on my homepage, no products are displayed, even though I added period date for some products. 2°/ When I add products to compare, I have the green message “products are added to compare”, but the compare sidebar is empty. I tried to empty the cache + index management. Thank you for your help.
	Posted: March 30 2011 \| top \| # 4

Yunus1 Total Posts: 147 Joined: 2011-08-02 Ignore user	I have the same problem. Have you found a soloution?
	Posted: August 16 2011 \| top \| # 5

Bamm Bamm Total Posts: 2 Joined: 2012-02-01 Ignore user	I’m having this same problem too. Version 1.6.2.0 Did anyone find a solution? I noticed that the same problem seems to be happening with my wishlist too. These bugs will temporarily go away if you click the “sort by” button. Which makes me think this issue has something to do with the View.
	Posted: February 26 2012 \| top \| # 6

akewmagento Total Posts: 22 Joined: 2011-06-12 Ignore user	Bamm Bamm - 25 February 2012 11:36 PM I’m having this same problem too. Version 1.6.2.0 Did anyone find a solution? I noticed that the same problem seems to be happening with my wishlist too. These bugs will temporarily go away if you click the “sort by” button. Which makes me think this issue has something to do with the View. Yes, me too. It’s time to remove add to compare. LOL http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/4_-_themes_and_template_customization/catalog/how_to_remove_add_to_compare#create_the_override_class Signature Information is Power Stackoverflow
	Posted: March 7 2012 \| top \| # 7

Dorgo Total Posts: 127 Joined: 2008-12-16 Ignore user	I am having the same issue and Bamm Bamm is correct, changing the sort gets it to work again ..... Anyone have a fix? Removing the functionality doesn\’t deserve a [Solved]
	Posted: March 9 2012 \| top \| # 8

mpknol Total Posts: 5 Joined: 2011-02-01 Ignore user	Same problem here… on ver 1.6.2 Somehow I can only and just one of my products to compare. Just this one product. I’ll keep digging, removing Add to Compare is not a solution, agreed!
	Posted: April 12 2012 \| top \| # 9

Dorgo Total Posts: 127 Joined: 2008-12-16 Ignore user	The problem for me was that magento was not creating logs for users who were not logged in. My local.xml had the following lines:- <frontend> <events> <controller_action_predispatch> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </controller_action_predispatch> <controller_action_postdispatch> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </controller_action_postdispatch> <customer_login> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </customer_login> <customer_logout> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </customer_logout> <sales_quote_save_after> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </sales_quote_save_after> <checkout_quote_destroy> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </checkout_quote_destroy> </events> </frontend> Changing these from disabled to enabled fixed the issue.
	Posted: April 16 2012 \| top \| # 10

caricarreira Total Posts: 5 Joined: 2011-12-16 Ignore user	I found a solution, (worked for me) Go to admin -> sytem -> index maneagement -> Select all and re-index.
	Posted: April 23 2012 \| top \| # 11

Alaska Total Posts: 4 Joined: 2011-11-09 Ignore user	In my case it was also caused by an update of app/etc/local.xml as recommended by my hosting provider to decrease server load of logging db calls and as referred to by Dorgo. <frontend> <events> <controller_action_predispatch> <observers><log><type>enabled</type></log></observers> </controller_action_predispatch> <controller_action_postdispatch> <observers><log><type>enabled</type></log></observers> </controller_action_postdispatch> <customer_login> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </customer_login> <customer_logout> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </customer_logout> <sales_quote_save_after> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </sales_quote_save_after> <checkout_quote_destroy> <observers><log><type>disabled</type></log></observers> </checkout_quote_destroy> </events> </frontend> I only had to enable the first two events after which the ‘add to compare’ functionality worked again. Thank you Dorgo for pointing me in the right direction in my case.
	Posted: February 28 2013 \| top \| # 12

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