Question

Whenever I use the EDITCELL button to update categorization of a support question, it causes the question to come up as the result of any search, not just a search on the selected category. As near as I can tell, this is because the %EDITCELL{checkbox, 4, Platform, Hosting, Installation, Htaccess, Permissions, Registration, Authentication, Security, Authorisation, Version control, Forms, Search, Javascript, System logs, Statistics, Missing functionality, Performance, Fatal error, Documentation, Contributing code, Contributing time, Paid help, Deployment, Internationalisation, Localisation, Browser issue, Plugins, Add-Ons, Skin, Mail}% variable pulls the actual categories upon save, which are then read as selected categories. Is there any way around this?

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-- TWikiGuest - 16 Nov 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The EDITCELL uses a %SUPPORTCATEGORIES% preferences setting. There is a known issue that the EditTablePlugin expands variables of cell types other than label, e.g. %SUPPORTCATEGORIES% gets expanded. That is once you edit/save the table you get the expanded category list, hence a search will show a hit for an item even if not selected. A proper fix is to fix the EditTablePlugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Nov 2006

As a workaround for you own application you can avoid the EDITCELL and use an EDITTABLE{ format="" } instead.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Nov 2006