#4221 closed defect (fixed)
"Page not modified" exception is disturbing and counter productive
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Christian Boos | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 0.11 |
| Component: | wiki system | Version: | 0.10.1 |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
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Description
When a user clicks on Submit changes on a wiki page that has not been modified, he gets a page with an agressive red error square that says "Page not modified".
Here at my work, we already had several users that got lost when facing this.
What would be better would be to have the page (that was being edited) displayed with a warning square prepended saying "No changes have been made, page displayed below as it was before editing" or something similar.
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Change History (7)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Severity: | major → normal |
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follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 18 years ago
| Milestone: | → 0.11 |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
| Severity: | normal → minor |
The message "No changes have been made" could be displayed in kind of warning box, similar to the version info box.
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
Replying to cboos:
The message "No changes have been made" could be displayed in kind of warning box, similar to the version info box.
What is really important is that users shouldn't face a dead end when submitting an unchanged page. Warning them that the page is the same is ok but there really should be either the submitted page under the warning or a link that says "Go to page" because currently users see the error page and are blocked facing it. They think they are punished even though they did nothing wrong.
To sum up, the behaviour when submitting an unchanged page should be the same as when cancelling its edition.
comment:5 by , 18 years ago
So I think a good compromise would be to show the page in the versioned mode, so that it's evident that nothing changed after the edit and at the same time, there's no special error or warning…
#4220 was marked as duplicate of this ticket.