[2014-10-15 10:25] Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar <c.robbenh...@espresto.com>
> On 10/14/2014 08:02 PM, markus schnalke wrote:
> >
> > in Mediawiki it's possible to insert one's name and the current
> > date quite easily with four tilde characters: ~~~~.
> >
> > Is it possible to do this in a convenient way in Xwiki, as well?
> > And if so, how?
> >
> >
> > I think it should be possible by creating a macro. However, I
> > would appreciate if inserting the signature would be a simpler
> > tag than: {{sign/}}.
>
> A macro has the disadvantage that it is evaluated every time the page is
> rendered, and it will not "remember" when it has been inserted.
>
> What you want here is something that is evaluated when the page is saved,
> remembering the author / current date when saving.
Exactly.
> To me this looks more like a use case for an Event Listener, e.g.:
>
>
> http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/WritingEventListenerTutorial
>
> You will have to replace
>
> docSource.setContent(docSource.content + "\n\nSome extra content...")
>
> in the tutorial by something like:
>
> docSource.setContent(docSource.content.replaceAll('~~~~',xcontext.user + '
> ' + docSource.date) )
Thanks. I'm sure this is how it could be done. However, in the
meantime, I think that using the annotation plugin/application
might be the more XWiki-like way to go -- although less familiar
to me it might actually be more familiar to most of the users of
our wiki.
Thanks for your help!
meillo
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