SID-00758: RenderFormPlugin breaks ActionTrackerPlugin

Status:	Unanswered	TWiki version:	4.3.1	Perl version:	5.8.2
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	AIX 5.3	Last update:	1 year ago

Hello. I love RenderFormPlugin. But now that I have installed it, it breaks the JSCalendar on the edit pane of Action Tracker. For example, when you hit the "edit" button to modify an entry, you get a edit page which is largely controlled by template actionform.tmpl. On this page there is a form field using the JSCalendar, and you can select it, and get the calendar, but when you select a date, it does not populate the field. I believe the problem arises because an extra reference to the JSCalendar css gets appended at the bottom of the page, confusing the browser. It appears to be tacked on after where the content from actionform.tmpl does its work, so I'm not sure how it's getting populated. Any help?

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-02-18

Discussion and Answer

Here is the line which gets added which I believe is causing the problem:

<style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('/twiki/pub/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib/calendar-blue.css');.calendar {z-index:2000;}</style><script type='text/javascript' src='/twiki/pub/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib/calendar.js'></script><script type='text/javascript' src='/twiki/pub/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib/lang/calendar-en.js'></script><script type='text/javascript' src='/twiki/pub/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib/calendar-setup.js'></script><script type='text/javascript' src='/twiki/pub/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib/twiki.js'></script>

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-02-18

ActionTrackerPlugin version says 16787 (12 Dec 2008)

RenderFormPlugin version says V1.003 (13 Feb 2009)

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-02-18

I ended up fixing this problem by commenting out any calls to the addHEAD subroutine in JSCalendarContrib, which, of course, is not the best way to do this

This included:

lib/TWiki/Form/Date.pm
lib/TWiki/Contrib/JSCalendarContrib.pm
lib/TWiki/Plugins/RenderFormPlugin.pm
lib/TWiki/Plugins/ActionTrackerPlugin.pm
lib/TWiki/Plugins/FormPlugin.pm

-- AaronLWalker - 2010-02-18

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