[rt-users] RT 4.0.5 bug in Excel export

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:35:25PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote:
> 
> On 11 Apr 2012, at 15:50, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> 
> > Please don't CC developers directly, lots of us work on the
> > extensions.  It would be great if Tim filed his patch in the appropriate
> > rt.cpan.org queue.
> 
> I wasn't brave enough to do that. It's not an extension I use - I
> wrote that patched version direct in my email with code pasted from
> the CPAN code browser, so it really hasn't be tested at all. The
> ColumnMap examples in the Wiki have the same "bug". Given that all
> ColumnMap callbacks that worked in RT 3.8 will be affected by this, it
> could be considered a regression in 4.0 I suppose; the fundamental
> cause is that the callback happens in share/html/Elements/ColumnMap,
> which is called by share/html/Search/Results.tsv. Unfortunately, that
> callback happens *after* Results.tsv has cbballed the ScrubHTML code.

> 
> There might be more satisfactory and general solutions that could be
> implemented in the Results.tsv mason page. Rather simplistically, it
> could just run ScrubHTML across everything that comes out of the
> ColumnMap.

Yep, but it wants a bug somewhere (in RT for the possible regression)
or in the module pointing out the problem.  Possibly both, with
pointers between them.

I appreciate you digging into it and checking it out.

-kevin
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