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Sorry. This is not a defect. Is it possible to change this to "Feature Request"?

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the feedback - we should be giving this a spin tomorrow ;)

Hi Chris,

We put this in place, and Wow, what a night&day difference it's made for us. Thanks!

Ben

Hi Chris,

Thanks for this patch, really useful, I added it on my redmine!

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

...The patch provides that sidebar using a wiki page named 'Sidebar'. Did you try it? Perhaps the patch needs an update. It runs fine here and I'm still waiting for a general approval from the devs to make this a full-blown feature...

This still works in the basics on the current trunk at r2641. One issue that comes up though are the section-links on headings which now points to the incorrect pages...

One issue that comes up though are the section-links on headings which now points to the incorrect pages...

Can you provide an example? In case you refer to the automatic anchors/links on headings, you can not have headings with exactly the same name in both content and sidebar.

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

One issue that comes up though are the section-links on headings which now points to the incorrect pages...

Can you provide an example? In case you refer to the automatic anchors/links on headings, you can not have headings with exactly the same name in both content and sidebar.

That's exactly what I meant... The automatic anchors/links are pointing to the current page which breaks them and as a side-effect of that duplicates can occur (which will raise an error I guess).

Can you give a bit more detail? Say I put a "h3. Foobar" in the Sidebar. There will be an anchor #Foobar and a link to #Foobar on every page. No problem there, or am I missing something?
If you then put the same name Say "h1. Foobar" on some page you are in trouble. But content authors will always need to be careful there. I.e. you can't use "h1. Foobar" and say "h2. Foobar" on the same page anyhow.

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

Can you give a bit more detail? Say I put a "h3. Foobar" in the Sidebar. There will be an anchor #Foobar and a link to #Foobar on every page. No problem there, or am I missing something?

This is the thing I see as a problem: The anchor/link #Foobar in your example is pointing to a non-existing section on the current page if no such heading is used in the current page...

The anchor/link #Foobar in your example is pointing to a non-existing section on the current page if no such heading is used in the current page...

Let clear this up some. That automatic link is pointing to the that same automatic anchor. I.e. when you add a heading "Foobar" it gets an id of "Foobar" serving as anchor for the link "#Foobar". It doesn't matter if this happens to be content or Sidebar. Did you experience otherwise? You can't use automatic links in the Sidebar to point to some content section.
Maybe you are talking about some manual links? Can you provide an example?

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

Mischa The Evil wrote:

The anchor/link #Foobar in your example is pointing to a non-existing section on the current page if no such heading is used in the current page...

Let clear this up some. That automatic link is pointing to the that same automatic anchor. I.e. when you add a heading "Foobar" it gets an id of "Foobar" serving as anchor for the link "#Foobar". It doesn't matter if this happens to be content or Sidebar. Did you experience otherwise?

It does matter IMHO since this creates non-existent (automatically generated) anchor-links in the sidebar when using a sidebar-page.

For example with a Sidebar-page like following

h1. Sidebar

h2. Testers

* [[Test1]]
* [[Test2]]

h2. Others

* [[Other1]]
* [[Other2]]

my startpage (named Wiki) includes the Sidebar-page in the wiki-sidebar but this " partial " also includes automatically generated anchor-links on the headings (Testers and Others) pointing to these same anchors though on the current startpage (Wiki) which doesn't include headings (thus anchors) named Testers and Others.

Pff, seems difficult to explain but hope I made clear what I mean... :wink:

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

You can't use automatic links in the Sidebar to point to some content section.

Agreed and acknowledged... Seems logical indeed ;-)

my startpage (named Wiki) includes the Sidebar-page in the wiki-sidebar but this " partial " also includes automatically generated anchor-links on the headings (Testers and Others) pointing to these same anchors though on the current startpage (Wiki) which doesn't include headings (thus anchors) named Testers and Others.

Ok, I see. But don't these automatic links point to just the headings in the Sidebar?

It seems you want the automatic links to point to content (which would be nice indeed).

Maybe the simple solution would be to remove automatic linking from Sidebar headings. It's just confusing and not that many people would want to link to a sidebar section anyway.

• remove automatic links from Sidebar headings
• change Sidebar heading styles to match the existing Redmine sidebar items
• Advise users to start with h3 in the Sidebar

• remove automatic links from Sidebar headings
• change Sidebar heading styles to match the existing Redmine sidebar items
• Advise users to start with h3 in the Sidebar

Here is an updated patch. The Sidebar css styles now match the original sidebar. It's intended for #2641.

Huh, where did the attachment go?

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

Huh, where did the attachment go?

Hehe, I think it got lost due to our cuncurrent edit-actions I guess...

Christian Zuckschwerdt wrote:

...But don't these automatic links point to just the headings in the Sidebar?

AFAICT they don't... :-)

It seems you want the automatic links to point to content (which would be nice indeed).

I don't want and/or need it. I think it would make the implementation too difficult. I like your initial KISS-approach... :-)

Maybe the simple solution would be to remove automatic linking from Sidebar headings. It's just confusing and not that many people would want to link to a sidebar section anyway.

+10... This seems the best solution IMHO too...

Thanks for supporting this patch...

Kind regards,

Mischa.

Is this still current?

I applied the latest patch to the latest version of redmine (15th June 09) and the sidebar intermittently disappears. As in, it 'kinda' works, then when you reload or go to another page, it disappears etc.

Any ideas?

Andy Wiltshire wrote:

Is this still current?

I applied the latest patch to the latest version of redmine (15th June 09) and the sidebar intermittently disappears. As in, it 'kinda' works, then when you reload or go to another page, it disappears etc.

Note sure about the current state of the patch but to be sure: have you actually created the Sidebar-wikipage as given in the instructions?:

The patch provides that sidebar using a wiki page named 'Sidebar'

Regards,

Mischa.

+1 for integrating it into the trunk

Jens Goldhammer wrote:

+1 for integrating it into the trunk

This seems to be at least implemented as part of the Wiki Extensions plugin (thus you don't need to rely on core-modifications to get the desired feature).

Regards,

Mischa.