Question

I installed 4.2 earlier today three times (luckily it's very fast) and I've noticed some behavior that has to be a bug. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. I read over other questions that exhibited this same problem, but no one presented a clear solution other than restoring. If I make any change whatsoever to TWikiPreferences, the little pic next to the Web at the top left say "web-bg-small" and all of the little icons go away at the bottom next to the Web names. One time I simply changed the favicon location and the other time I simply changed the logo at the top left. I made these same changes in 4.1.2 w/out any problems whatsoever. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem as it is really preventing me from doing any customization work to my site. Also, during my efforts to restore the original TWikiPreferences file, I ended up having a version issue and RCS gagged on me. Thank you!

Environment

-- RobKruciak - 16 Mar 2008

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.

Did you make the changes using 'normal' WYSIWYG editing? It may be that the editor corrupts some settings. I have this feeling, perhaps you can nail it down further so we can create a bug entry from this.

To prevent this (and later upgrade troubles) it is best practice to write any overriding preferences in Main.TWikiPreferences.

-- ArthurClemens - 16 Mar 2008

I wasn't sure what you meant by normal, but I guessed that you meant to turn off the WYSIWYG editor and go to the old school style. So, I did that and it broke again. Thus, it doesn't seem to be the plugin. However, prior to doing this, I changed one other variable that had failed before by going directly to TwikiPreferences.txt in /var/www/twiki/data/TWiki and was able to successfully make the change without messing anything up. I'm going to go ahead and reload TWiki one more time and make the changes in TWikiPreferences.

-- RobKruciak - 16 Mar 2008

The last sentence I meant in Main.

-- RobKruciak - 16 Mar 2008

OK. I did everything in Main as you suggested and it all works. Whether you use the old school editor or the WYSIWYG plugin, it works fine. I'll leave this as "Asked" until I get a response from dev. I'm just not sure if it should be moved to answered until an official bug is authored. Thank you very much!!!

-- RobKruciak - 16 Mar 2008

For clarity: could you describe the bug in one or 2 lines?

-- ArthurClemens - 16 Mar 2008

Any edits to

TWiki.TWikiPreferences

-- RobKruciak - 17 Mar 2008

How's that?

-- RobKruciak - 17 Mar 2008

Oh ya, one more thing. This applies to 4.2.

-- RobKruciak - 17 Mar 2008

Sorry, RobKruciak I think you should obtain a fresh copy of TWiki.TWikiPreferences and make all the modifications using only the pure text editor (not WYSIWYG)

I had the same problem, the exact behavior and it ended as soon I stop using TinyMCE editor to edit TWiki.TWikiPreferences. After that I had made a lot of modifications without any problems.

Nevertheless I think there is a bug to be fixed, that is in the TinyMCE editor to stop it from spoiling the preference topic.

-- EnriqueCadalso - 18 Mar 2008

You should update the WysiwygPlugin. The problem was fixed a while a go and an updated plugin is available. You can upgrade from configure if the machine has access to the internet. Otherwise download and install manually.

-- KennethLavrsen - 19 Mar 2008

One more note: I had the same problem with the wysiwyg editor, but have not upgraded to the latest yet. However, if you add this set condition to your to your TWiki.TWikiPreferences and remove the # to enable it then the problem is fixed.

   * #Set ICONTOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.TWikiDocGraphics 

-- JeremiahCouey - 22 Sep 2008