SID-00438: ActionTrackerPlugin status and problems?

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.0	Perl version:	5.8.6
Category:	ActionTrackerPlugin	Server OS:	Linux, kernel 2.6.9	Last update:	15 years ago

I'm having some problems with the ActionTrackerPlugin. The %ACTIONSEARCH{}% action doesn't seem to format things properly if you use the "format" option. For instance, "$who" is formatted as "Main.UserName" rather than "UserName" and has no link. Also, the "$closed" only shows the closed date and not who closed it.

What is the status of ActionTrackerPlugin and (step by step) how do I get involved with discussions on it?

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-07-24

Discussion and Answer

1. In your search, use [[$who]] to force "Main.UserName" to be a link
2. Use closer to see who closed it. See the documentation
3. For discussions, try ActionTrackerPluginDev

-- SeanCMorgan - 2009-07-26

Tried joining the discussions at ActionTrackerPluginDev, but didn't have the "permissions" to post anything. How do I get the permissions? In other words, (I guess) what do I need to do to participate in discussions on the Plugins web?

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-07-27

Also, using [<nop>[$who]] in the format does force the "Main.UserName" to be a link, but it still displays the "Main." whereas not using a format option formats the Owner with a link and without the "Main.". Something to discuss in the Dev.

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-07-27

You can format it however like with [[$who][%CALC{...($who)}%]]

> Something to discuss in the Dev

Actually, no. Dev is for discussing development of the plugin. Very often in Dev topics you will see the remark, "please ask support question in the Support web".

Perhaps Peter can answer why you don't have access to Dev.

-- SeanCMorgan - 2009-07-27

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-- PeterThoeny - 2009-09-05

Been away for awhile -- let's try this again:

1. %ACTION{who="UserName"}% always seems to get saved as %ACTION{who="Main.UserName" ... }. Is that by design?

2. %ACTIONSEARCH{who="UserName"}% will produce a table with a "UserName" link to the users home page. This is good and true regardless of whether #1 is "UserName", "Main.UserName", or even "Main.Main.UserName" (a typo that happened to work).

3. %ACTIONSEARCH{who="UserName" format="|[<nop>[$who]]|"} will produce a table with a "Main.UserName" (or "Main.Main.UserName") link to the users home page. Why is this different than #2?

4. As suggested above, exactly how do you use %CALC{}% to trim the webname off the front of the username? More to the point, why is this necessary?

-- DavidMasterson - 2010-04-29

Found the problem with #3 (I think). If you do not put spaces around the separators in the format string, then $who gets expanded as "Main.UserName", but, if you do put in the spaces, then $who gets expanded as "UserName". Strange...

-- DavidMasterson - 2010-05-03

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