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    • What happened to my external url page link button?

    Posted by nikosal posts: 98 Greece

    I think that after I upgraded to tiki 12.0, the external link button has disappeared from my standard editor. Any suggestion?

    PS. By the way, with 12.0 I had the expectation that the wysiwyg editor upgrade would make it stop adding two blank lines every time I start a new paragraph, but that is not the case. This is why I am stuck with the standard editor...

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    Posted by nikosal posts: 98 Greece

    I am stuck with this problem, so I will try to explain it bit better.

    I use the simple editor in order to edit my wiki pages.
    From day one I could find two useful buttons there, the wiki page button and the external page button. The second one, you know how it works: You select some text - you click the button - a pop up window comes up with a line ready to fill in (or copy-paste) the url - your press enter and that's it, you go back finding your text ready in the right format (opening bracket, url, line, text, closing bracket).

    Since 12.0 this external page link button has disappeared from the toolbar. I tried and tried and found no way to make it appear again (I can see and use it in the wysiwyg editor, though).

    How do I bring it back? One thing I tried is add a new button, but while I searched around I couldn't find the properties I would have to fill in the edit tool window (syntax, type etc.)

    Any ideas?

    Posted by Tom Jarvis posts: 215

    I have also noticed that the external link tool bar option is missing when editing a wiki page. I did some checking of the code in lib/toolbars/toolbarslib.php and found that, among lots of other lines, lines 589 and 590 were added with:

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    case 'link':
          return new self( 'Link' );


    When I comment out these 2 lines, the external link option reappears on the tool bar, and works again. It also reappears on the Admin Toolbars page.

    I do not know what removing those lines breaks, but maybe whoever added them didn't notice that it removed the external link option from the wiki edit page tool bar. Does anyone know what those lines were added for, and if they were meant to remove the external link option from the tool bar?

    I just checked in demo Tiki 11, and the external link shows in the tool bar there, so it was a change made to Tiki 12 that removed it.

    Tom


    Posted by nikosal posts: 98 Greece
    That's interesting... Hope we have an answer one of these days, before I comment these two lines out!