2045: Cutting and pasting images, workaround to misunderstanding - Composr CMS feature tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

2045	Composr	General / Uncategorised	public	2015-09-27 14:55	2015-09-27 14:55

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Chris Graham
Priority	high	Severity	minor
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	9.0.20

Summary	2045: Cutting and pasting images, workaround to misunderstanding
Description	Some users may paste images into the WYSIWYG editor and not understand what this does. They may then cut them into the clipboard, save the original resource that had them, paste them elsewhere and save that, and find they are lost. When an image is pasted into the WYSIWYG it embeds as base64, i.e. all the binary data is encapsulated directly within the edited post rather than as separate file(s). That isn't an appropriate situation for Composr to maintain (it's extremely in efficient), so we convert it into an attachment when Composr saves. Attachments however only persist as long as they are referenced. Therefore if you cut and save, then paste elsewhere, it results in a broken reference because the attachment was lost at the cut and save point. This hotfix allows you to disable attachment cleanup. The trade-off is that attachments will build up on-disk. This probably is not a practical concern, given disk space and bandwidth are bountiful nowadays. After applying the hotfix activate via this Commandr command: :set_value('disable_attachment_cleanup','1'); Paste this precisely. The leading colon is required. For v10 we will make this a proper config option.
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Chris Graham 2015-09-27 14:55 administrator ~3105	Fixed in git commit 86fb8ff (https://github.com/chrisgraham/Composr/commit/86fb8ff - link will become active once code pushed to github) A hotfix (a TAR of files to upload) have been uploaded to this issue. These files are made to the latest intra-version state (i.e. may roll in earlier fixes too if made to the same files) - so only upload files newer than what you have already. Always take backups of files you are replacing or keep a copy of the manual installer for your version, and only apply fixes you need. These hotfixes are not necessarily reliable or well supported. Not sure how to extract TAR files to your Windows computer? Try 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). hotfix-2045, 2015-09-27 4pm.tar (51,712 bytes)

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-02-26 18:29	Chris Graham	Category	General => General / Uncategorised