Question

I have an odd problem with the ActionTrackerPlugin. When entering an action and viewing the resulting topic all user names appear properly formatted, that is, they are WikiWord links back to the users pages. However when I do a search on the actions all names appear as plain text so ChuckHirstius becomes Main.ChuckHirstius. This happens for all user names in all roles (creator, assigned to, etc.) even when the action and the search are in the same topic such as in the plugin topic itself (that'll be important later) Clearly the data is there but somewhere along the line it never gets resolved to a link.

Now what's odd is that in the ActionTrackerPlugin topic in my TWiki web the example that says "If the plugin is installed you should see..." works perfectly fine - in both cases (action and search) I see a link to TWikiGuest. I don't understand how it works there but nowhere else.

Has anyone else seen behavior like this? Am I missing something that's blatantly obvious?

Environment

-- ChuckHirstius - 10 Feb 2004

Chuck, what version of the plugin are you running? The one I just released? Have you changed the search table format in the plugin topic? -- CrawfordCurrie - 10 Feb 2004

I installed the plugin on 2/5/2004 I believe this would be the most recent version. I haven't edited any preferences in the plugin topic page or set any in the web I am testing it in (Sandbox). Is there something I can look for to verify what version I have?

The action from one of the topics:

%ACTION{ state="open" creator="Main.ChuckHirstius" notify="" closer="" closed="BAD DATE FORMAT see Plugin#DateFormats" due="18-Feb-2004" who="Main.ChuckHirstius" created="5-Feb-2004" uid="000002" }% A Test Action

And the search in the same topic:

%ACTIONSEARCH{ web="Sandbox" state="open" format="|$who|$text|$edit|" header="|Assigned To:|Task Desc:||" orient="rows" }%

I'm not sure where the bad closed date came from - it's not closed yet! But even before that appeared I had the issue of names not being resolved so I don't think they are related.

-- ChuckHirstius - 10 Feb 2004

Answer

OK, I think I might see your problem. Put a space on either side of the $who in the format attribute, and try again.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Feb 2004

Sorry for the delay in response I had been pulled off onto other projects and only recently have been able to try your suggestion - it works as expected. I feel like an idiot but I am glad to have it working. Thanks Crawford.

-- ChuckHirstius - 17 Feb 2004