Item3982: Add support for RevCommentPlugin and HistoryPlugin to NatSkin

These plugins need explicit treatment in a skin.

-- MichaelDaum - 27 Apr 2007

NatSkin-v3.0-pre17 has got support for the HistoryPlugin now. RevCommentPlugin pending.

-- MichaelDaum - 13 Nov 2007

I will not add support for RevCommentPlugin. That's too weak of a plugin in terms of quality. This plugin should be obsoleted by storing rev comments in the store and not in META variables. Btw the way rev comments are stored into META is designed rather badly.

-- MichaelDaum - 25 Mar 2011

I had a client that demanded this feature be supported so I investigated what would be involved. I figured out how to make it work and thought I'd document it here in case someone else needs it.

What we want to do is to create a customized version of the edittoolbar.natedit.tmpl file. If you modify the original, you risk having it over-written the next time you upgrade NatEditPlugin. Better to create it under your own skin. You can do this by simply duplicating that file and call it something like edittoolbar.myskin.tmpl. In your new file, insert a new line after the first line (that has "<div class="natEditBottomBar">") and add the following code (copied from PatternSkin):

%IF{ "context RevCommentPluginEnabled" then="<div class='revComment'><label for='comment'>Summary of changes</label> <input class='foswikiInputField' type='text' style='width:50%' name='comment' id='comment' /> %POPUPWINDOW{"%SYSTEMWEB%.RevComment" label="%MAKETEXT{"help"}%"}%</div>" else=""}%

To enable your new skin, add your new skin name to beginning of SKIN preference setting in Main.SitePreferences, like this:

   * Set SKIN = myskin,nat

The revision comment field will now be displayed right above the edit actions.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 16 Jul 2013

I am not happy with the way this has been dealt with

-- Main.KennethLavrsen - 13 Aug 2015 - 18:49

While you're adding support for viewing/editing comments of the RevCommentPlugin you could add support for the sidebyside render mode of the CompareRevisionsAddOn as well Micha.

-- Main.FranzJosefGigler - 13 Aug 2015 - 19:51

Feel free to reopen this task and add a patch to a git branch for this item, Franz, or anybody else.

-- MichaelDaum - 13 Aug 2015

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