[dokuwiki] Re: Requiring summaries (was: darcs changes)
- From: Redeeman <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:08:55 +0200
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 23:14 -0500, Joe Lapp wrote:
> > Sun Oct 2 13:32:55 CEST 2005 Andreas Gohr <andi[at]splitbrain.org>
> > * minor edit checkbox
>
> Thank you! I meant to get to this but have been keeping busy.
>
> I also need a $conf['requiresums'], which when set would require that the
> user either provide a summary or click minor edit. Reason: I'm controlling
> the quality of my feeds and can't allow minor edits to slip through. Minor
> edits in my feeds would cause users to unsubscribe from the feeds.
>
> My preference is that if you press Save and you haven't done one of the
> required actions, that a Javascript dialog box pops up. I don't like having
> to wait for an HTTP round trip to complete to get an error message telling me
> that I forgot to do something -- my brain registers this wait as
> unnecessarily rude. Besides, I might have walked away in the mean time.
> There's nothing like instant feedback.
>
i dislike this, instead you should just write what is required, so if
its either minor edit, or summary, it will write that with small read
text - or perhaps..
what if the submit button just wasnt active untill either requirements
were met? isnt this possible through javascript?
> The dialog box would say: "Please either enter a summary or click 'minor
> edit.' [Okay]"
>
> Is this something that could go into DokuWiki proper? Any suggested tweaks?
> Thanks!
>
> ~joe
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