Re: Protecting multi-line text fields

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 13:54 08.01.2002 -0800, Frank Gilmurray wrote:
> We running gnats 3.113.1 and gnatsweb 2.9.2.  I'd like to protect some
> fields (like the Description) such that editors can see the current text
>
> but only add to it (and not be allowed to change what's already there).
> Saving the old contents and appending it to the new value (in
> submitedit) doesn't help because then user's don't see the old contents.
>
> I've read through (most of) the CGI.pm 2.56 documentation but couldn't
> find a way to do this.
>
> Does anyone know a way to protected the old contents of a multi-line
> text field but still be allowed to add to it?

You would probably have to rewire Gnatsweb a little bit to achieve this. 
Make it display the current contents directly (not in an editable form 
field), then add a new multiline field where users can add content. Then 
write a few lines of Perl to add the new contents to the old contents 
before the whole thing is fed to GNATS.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer