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Item4816: EditPreferences of Main.TWikiPreferences broken

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Extension PreferencesPlugin Urgent Closed   minor 4.2.0

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In TWikiRelease04x02 branch if you go to TWikiPreferences (the one in Main) - you must be logged in as admin to do this - and click the Edit Preferences button you get the correct change to a form based settings entry.

But try saving. Then you get a mysterious "This topic does not exist page that says: The topic 'Jump' you are trying to access does not exist, yet.

The URL is the preferences URL but I get this strange error.

In MAIN branch I get a

TWiki detected an internal error - please check your TWiki logs and webserver logs for more information.

Can't call method "renderForEdit" on an undefined value

It also seems someone removed the button from TWiki.TWikiPreferences. Maybe to not encourage editing the TWiki web. But someone changed something so that the plugin no longer works.

This plugin was the argument for deprecating and removing form based settings so it has to work. Therefore urgent release blocker.

-- TWiki:Main/KennethLavrsen - 14 Oct 2007

I know the root cause of this one and I have a fix coded.

Need to run some more testing and run unit tests before I check it in.

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 26 Oct 2007

I ended up spending a lot of time on this trying regex a fix. But it required a little code.

I found and fixed 3 bugs.

  • Preferences Plugin would also create fields inside html comment adding the inside the HTML comment. Result was that forms were mixed up and you ended up at a jump page. Now only visible fields become edit fields
  • The plugin had a problem with editing fields that were not defined in the template if a template is used.
  • And finally fixed the TWikiPreferences so it calls the form in TWiki web

Unit tests have been extended to catch the html comment bug

Tested that the plugin also works in 4.1.2

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 05 Nov 2007

Plugin uploaded to t.o

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 05 Nov 2007

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Summary EditPreferences of Main.TWikiPreferences broken
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen
Codebase 4.2.0, ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-4.3.0, Fri, 12 Oct 2007, build 15261
AppliesTo Extension
Component PreferencesPlugin
Priority Urgent
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:15484 TWikirev:15487
TargetRelease minor
ReleasedIn 4.2.0
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Topic revision: r8 - 2008-01-22 - KennethLavrsen
 
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