[rt-users] Custom Field size

[Todd Chapman]

Kenneth,

Yes, include the <%INIT> line.

You have to make the directory
/opt/rt3/local/html/Callbacks/my_company/Elements/EditCustomField/
and create the file EditComponentName.

Then create the directory /opt/rt3/local/html/Elements/CustomFields/.

Now for every CF you want to modify the display of you create a file in that
directory. For edit mode you create the file
EditCF_my_cf_name. That is, "EditCF" + your CF name with all
non-alphanumeric characters replaces with underscores.

In the example I gave you just end up calling the same component RT would
have normally called, but override the Rows and Cols options.

Does that make sense?

-Todd


On 2/7/08, Kenneth Crocker <KFCrocker at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
>
>         That's pretty cool. Any answer as to why the first instruction I
> got
> doesn't work? I more curious than anything else. I'm still REAL new to
> the UNIX world and perl and more of n Administer at this point. I've
> written some simple scrips but no code that involves callbacks,
> subroutines, etc. My hero once said "a good man always knows his
> limitations". So I'm learning this stuff painfully slow. For example:
>
>         I assume $ cat means you want me to put the code that starts with
> the
> line return .... into ".../Elements/EditCustomField/EditComponentName".
> Do I include the <%init> line? Also, how will RT know that I want just
> the one CF to be bigger and what size? What is "<%ARGS>"? Does all of
> that code go in "/EditCustomField/"? Is that a directory? Is
> "/EditComponentName" a file and does it hold the "</%ARGS>" part of the
> code?
>         As you can see, I know very little about any perl code that is the
> least bit complicated. If I understood your code better, I'd more than
> likely use it as my 35 years of coding in 20 other languages taught me
> that hard-coding and redundant coding is BAD, BAD, BAD. Thanks.
>
>
> Kenn
> LBNL
>
> On 2/7/2008 12:57 PM, Todd Chapman wrote:
> > RT has a callback to change what component is used to edit/display a CF.
> > I wrote a callback that made it easy to override the component to be
> > used for a specific CF.
> >
> > Here is the callback:
> >
> > $ cat
> >
> /opt/rt3/local/html/Callbacks/my_company/Elements/EditCustomField/EditComponentName
> >
> > <%INIT>
> > return unless $CustomField;
> >
> > if ( $CustomField->FriendlyPattern =~ /\WTime\W/ ) {
> >     $$Name = $m->callers(1)->dir_path . "/CustomFields/TimePicker";
> >     return;
> > }
> >
> > my
> > $Comp = $CustomField->Name;
> > $Comp =~ s/\W/_/g;
> > $Comp = $m->callers(1)->dir_path . "/CustomFields/EditCF_$Comp";
> >
> > $$Name = $m->comp_exists($Comp.$CustomField->id) ?
> $Comp.$CustomField->id
> >        : $m->comp_exists($Comp)                  ? $Comp
> >        : $$Name;
> > </%INIT>
> > <%ARGS>
> > $Name
> > $CustomField => undef
> > $Object => undef
> > </%ARGS>
> >
> > With that in place I can just drop a new component in the right place to
> > get the desired behavior. Here is one what does what you want:
> >
> > $ cat
> /opt/rt3/local/html/Elements/CustomFields/EditCF_Change_Description
> >
> > <& /Elements/EditCustomFieldText, %ARGS, Rows => 10, Cols => 40 &>
> >
> >
> > This is handy for all sorts of things.
> >
> > -Todd
> >
> > On 2/7/08, *Kenneth Crocker* <KFCrocker at lbl.gov
> > <mailto:KFCrocker at lbl.gov>> wrote:
> >
> >     To all,
> >
> >
> >             My turn!!!  Awhile back, I asked about how to increase the
> >     size of a
> >     custom Field I defined as "Fill in one text area". It all works
> fine,
> >     but the size is like really, really, really small. I wanted to make
> the
> >     box (where the user would type his stuff) much bigger. I was told to
> >     change the size of "RT::MessageBoxWidth. I did. I made it
> >     "Set($MessageBoxWidth , 180);" and when I bounced RT, the box
> doesn't
> >     look any different. I created a ticket and when I typed info in the
> >     field, same small box and look. Sooooooo, does anyone have a
> solution to
> >     that one? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >     Kenn
> >     LBNL
> >
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