Lighting Effects and Blur Gallery defective in CC 2014?

I'm not seeing the field controls or any control pins for either the Lighting Effects options or within the Blur Gallery. This is on an iMac/Yosemite setup, with the GPU enabled and both OpenGL and OpenCL available.
Does anyone have ideas on what could be the problem here?
thanks
John

hi,
I managed to restore both the field and pin controls by going to View > Show > Show Extra Options, turning everything off and then going there again and turning things back on. For the Blur Gallery options, it is necessary to have Show > Edit Pins activated, no matter whether View > Extras is initially checked or not. You can actually execute the Edit Pins command with the Filter(s) active. This is very quirky.
thanks for the response
John

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