SID-02330: Date field blanked when editing

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:	v5.20.2
Category:	EditTablePlugin	Server OS:	Debian Linux 8.9	Last update:	8 years ago

When I try to edit a table row that includes a date field, as soon as I open the row the date field is blanked out. There's also no calendar button next to that field.

Test case:

%EDITTABLE{format="|date,15,"", %Y-%m-%d  |"}%
| *Date* |
| 2014-11-07  |

-- Keith Edmunds - 2017-09-08

Discussion and Answer

This doesn't happen for me (Debian 8, TWiki 6.0.2). I created Sandbox.SupportSID02330 to see whether it happens on twiki.org (Version 6.0.0 plus security patches) - and I don't see it either. I've tried Firefox, Edge and Chrome. However, I could create some strange things with more complex examples (also in that support topic).

Eventually I spotted what confuses TWiki's parser: You have a pair of double quotes "" to denote an empty default value - but the double quote is the delimiter for the format string. The correct way to specify an empty string would be just - nothing - (or a space) between two consecutive commas:

%EDITTABLE{format="|date,15, , %Y-%m-%d  |"}%
| *Date* |
| 2014-11-07  |

For testing with your browser:

-- Harald Jörg - 2017-09-08

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