Re: Silent submit for issue.item.html

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 06:16:11PM +0000, Tom Ekberg wrote:
> I have a request from one of our tracker users to have 2 types of
> submit buttons for issue creation or editing. One submit button would
> write to the database (messages too) and do nothing else (silent). The
> other would work as it does now, writing to the database and sending
> emails using the nosy list. I don't see an easy way to do that other
> than have javascript that sets a field (input type="hidden") to a
> value that the detector nosyreaction.py can check.
> 
> 
> This seems like a hack. Is there a more elegant way to implement a
> "silent" submit button?

I also see no other way to do that. But it comes with a bonus: With this
request I'm sure that users will complain from time to time that it did
the wrong thing (either it sent or didn't send mail and didn't do what
the user thought it should). In that case you have the roundup history
to prove them wrong :-)

Ralf
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