Beautiful! Thank you, Andreas.

Stephan, I'm not worried about bots, my repos all live on
non-publicly-accessible servers. If that should change, I'll consider
enabling the preview.

Also, extra cool that Fossil uses Tcl as its scripting language - I
didn't know that until today.

- Joe


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Andreas Kupries
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Joe Knapka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I find the requirement that I "Preview" ticket edits before I can
>>> "Submit" them to be entirely annoying and of no value whatsoever. I
>>> nevur mispell onything, and my repositories are entirely for my
>>> personal use anyway. Is there any way to configure Fossil not to
>>> require the "Preview" step?
>>
>>
>> Not one built in. i believe the preview is intended to help thwart bots. One
>> of my repos, due to negligent permissions on my part, was once bot-attacked,
>> and the bot filled out both wiki pages and tickets with random content (but
>> avoided changing the configured home page, so the attack went unnoticed
>> longer than it should have!).
>
> The logic for ticket edits is a TH1/HTML script configurable at
>
>     Admin -> Tickets ->  Edit Ticket Page
>
> That is <repo-url>/tktsetup_editpage
>
> Using
>    http://core.tcl.tk/akupries/kettle/tktsetup_editpage
> as example, at the bottom I see
>
> <tr>
> <td align="right">
> <input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview" />
> </td>
> <td align="left">See how the description will appear after formatting.</td>
> </tr>
>
> <th1>enable_output [info exists preview]</th1>
> <tr>
> <td align="right">
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
> </td>
> <td align="left">Apply the changes shown above</td>
> </tr>
> <th1>enable_output 1</th1>
>
> The first block is the preview button and can be removed.
> The second block is the submission button, conditional on preview
> (enable_output).
> Lose the two enable_output lines and and it should be unconditional
>
>
>>
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