Re: Silent submit for issue.item.html

Hi Ralf:

In message <[email protected]>,
Ralf Schlatterbeck writes:
>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 :-)

I am drafing a response to this in another email, but are you sure
that there will be anything in the roundup history? IIRC only things
that hit the database are in the history. This would never hit the
database. Tom could certainly log the inbound request to show what
happened.

Have a great weekend.
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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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