[Pmwiki-users] Moving author field to the top

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:35:02AM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:51:37PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > I now have an implementation that requires an author name before a user
> > is allowed to post, but I'm wondering what the prompt should say when
> > the user presses "Save" without an author name.  Currently it simply says
> > "Author name is required", but I'm wondering if it should be phrased
> > differently.
> 
> The Author field must contain a value
> Author is a required field
> A value is required for Author
> Author required
> You must provide a value for Author
> Error: no Author specified!
> 
> Whatever the text is by default, it should be easily configurable by
> the WikiAdmin IMHO.  $AuthorError = "Give me an Author!"
> 
> > To experiment with the author-name-required feature, edit any page
> > in the Development group on pmichaud.com and try to save a page
> > with the author field blank.  (A good test page is
> > http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Development/WikiSandbox .)
> 
> Rather than <h3>, you should probably surround the text with <div
> class='wikierror'>...</div> or something. (This is just some bias
> showing through. It feels better to me to do ".wikierror { color:red; }"
> instead of "#wikiedit form>h3 { color:red; }")

Er, I'm referring to the "author name is required" text in the above
paragraph.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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