Item821: Allow links in EditTablePlugin dropdown

From http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EditTablePluginDev:

I think the EditTablePlugin may need a little fix below. In the version used on my wiki site it was not possible to have a wiki link on option list, like that:

%EDITTABLE{ format="select, 1, [[Link]]" }%
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An "Edit" action would convert it to a plain word "Link".

Index: Core.pm
===================================================================
--- Core.pm    (version 31)
+++ Core.pm    (version 32)
@@ -963,6 +963,7 @@
           $valExpanded   =~ s/^\s+//;
           $valExpanded   =~ s/\s+$//;
+           TWiki::Plugins::EditTablePlugin::encodeValue($val) if $val;
           if ( $valExpanded eq $expandedValue ) {
               $text .= " <option selected=\"selected\">$val</option>";
           }

Sorry for spamming you, but I haven't found any reasonable place in the huge TWiki site to put a comment like this.

-- TWiki:Main.KrzysztofNosek - 03 Nov 2008

I have not tried the patch and I do not dare adding it to 1.0.5 which I am working on now as any change we ever did to EditTablePlugin cost us a painful 2-3 weeks of fixing.

But I can give you a work around.

Instead of using the link directly use

%EDITTABLE{ format="select, 1, [<nop>[Link]]" }%
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The little nop prevent the renderer from turning the text into a link too early.

In Foswiki 1.0.4 and forward - once the link is in the table it works and gets saved correctly

-- KennethLavrsen - 22 Apr 2009