Issue: Can't add attachments to Articles

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August 14, 2010 10:26 AM

dfidler

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Can't add attachments to Articles

If the administrator has set a "Time Limit on Editing of Posts" then you can't add attachments after that time limit.

Issue:

Per summary, if a time limit is set on editing posts then you can't 'manage attachments' on an article once that time limit has expired.

Workaround:

Add all attachments to the article within the allotted time frame or remove the time limit on post editing.

Discussion:

The two workaround really aren't feasible for our use case. We are using the wiki for knowledge transfer and to hold our projects which include schematics, path files, etc. Projects often start off as WIPs and eventually grow into full projects but. Throughout the WIP process, users must be able to manage attachments as schematics will change, new path files will be created, etc.

Also, as the edit time limit is a global setting in vB (AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Posting and Editing Options -> Time Limit on Editing of Posts), you can't remove this time limit without also removing the time limit on your forum posts.

Issue Details

Issue Number 1916

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 3.x Series

Category Attachments

Status Fixed

Priority 3 - Loss of Functionality

Affected Version 3.0.2

Fixed Version 3.0.3

Milestone VaultWiki 3.0.5

Software DependencyAny

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

August 14, 2010 11:51 AM
pegasus

VaultWiki Team
I can only see this occurring in vBulletin < 4. If you're on vBulletin 3.x, go to AdminCP > Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager, and edit the VaultWiki plugin at hook location fetch_threadinfo. At the very end of the plugin code, add:

Code:

if ( THIS_SCRIPT == 'newattachment' AND ( $thread['namespaceid'] > 0 OR ( VAULT_36X_COMPAT AND $threadcache["$threadid"]['namespaceid'] > 0 ) ) ) { $vbulletin->options['edittimelimit'] = 0; }
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August 14, 2010 2:34 PM

dfidler

New Member

Nice. I was thinking of modding the attachment package. I keep forgetting that vB is chalk full of globals.

Is this code going to get merged into the 3.0.3 branch?

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August 14, 2010 4:08 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Yes it will.

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Issue: Can't add attachments to Articles

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