[Pmwiki-users] Re: Author tracking questions
Christian Ridderström
chr
Sun Feb 1 12:46:57 CST 2004
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:23:11AM +0100, Jean-Claude wrote:
> >
> > 1/ Is there a way to *oblige* the writer to fill in the box before PmWiki can
> > save the page? At least to remind forgetting editors to give a name (or
> > an alias if they want to cheat ;-)
>
> What should PmWiki do if someone doesn't fill in the author field--should
> it return them to the edit page with a note of some sort that the author
> field is required? (Of course this would need to be optional.)
I guess one alternative would be to have a checkbox called:
[ ] I'm an anonymous coward
and if the name field is empty and this box isn't checked, then you're
returned to the edit window with some message.
Speaking of checkboxes, I think there should also be a checkbox for:
[ ] This is a minor change, don't track this change.
> > 2/ Is the variable you use for writing this Author name available to
> > the webmaster: I'd like to include something along this line in my
> > GroupFooter: last edited by *[[$AuthorName]]* at [[$LastModifiedHost]]
>
> Actually, for now I've done [[$LastModifiedBy]], to remain
> consistent with [[$LastModified]] and [[$LastModifiedHost]].
> But I'm open to other suggestions.
These directives sounds good to me, although it's of course confusing that
the internal variable has a completely different name...
> PmWiki internally sets the $Author global variable to be the name of the
> person currently editing/browsing pages.
/Christian
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