Item9459: Need diff mode for MailerContrib
Priority: Enhancement
Current State: Proposal Required
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a
MailerContrib can currently do one of two things:
- send motification that a page has changed
- Send the content of the page as HTML
A third option would be very useful -- Send email with the diff whenever someone changes a page.
That is, don't just tell me "this page changed, clink the link to see the page, then click something else to see the changes". Tell me what changed!
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VickiBrown - 11 Aug 2010
This is an enhancement request. Not a bug where something does not work.
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KennethLavrsen - 12 Aug 2010
I totally agree that this enhancement would be useful.
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ArthurClemens - 12 Aug 2010
The summariseChanges function in 1.1 sends out a limited diff of the changes, not the complete change. Is this sufficient for this task? Please check out the notification e-mails coming from Foswiki.org since late yesterday. (The diff function was broken previously)
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GeorgeClark - 29 Mar 2011
The current diff mode actually is limited to 70 characters per line and 6 lines total. So a feature request might be to make these limits (currently CONSTANTs in
Foswiki::Meta
) controllable by additional parameters to Func, and either configurable in the preferences, or settable in the
LocalSite.cfg. Preference variables would probably be more difficult since they are per web / user / topic while the emails are I believe generated for multiple users.
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GeorgeClark - 29 Mar 2011
I just checked in some work in progress on a DIFF mode. It may prove useful.
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CrawfordCurrie - 05 Apr 2011
Does any of this rise to the level of needing documentation in the 1.1.4 release notes? There are commits to the release branch.
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GeorgeClark - 02 Oct 2011
"Improved difference presentation in change notification emails" should do it.
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CrawfordCurrie - 03 Oct 2011
Added this task to the 1.1.4 release notes manually using your description, plus (partial fix). Leaving this task open for the real fix - set to Proposal Required.
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GeorgeClark - 06 Oct 2011