Show summit Textfield next to "Save" on WYSIWYG

[mflorea]

@grimmksg

We currently have documents in the wiki (policies, product quality, …) that are audited by external users. The responsible departments used to always add a summary/comment when changing anything in these documents back in our confluence wiki for documentation purposes. It was not enforced that you can’t save a document without a summary, but at least the “presence” of the input field right next to the save button reminded the user to enter someting before saving. Thats why they asked if we can achive something similar in XWiki.

In XWiki, realtime collaboration is enabled by default when editing plain wiki pages with the WYSIWYG editor. Realtime collaboration performs auto-save. Even if the summary input would be visible on the realtime toolbar, you would still get some revisions auto-saved without a summary. Moreover, the autosave might be triggered while you type the summary, in which case a partial summary would be used. This is why we chose to hide the summary input from the realtime toolbar and instead introduce a separate action to “save with summary”.

If the wiki pages you mentioned require a very well-defined history with change summaries, then maybe realtime editing is not suited for them. Currently, there’s no way to disable realtime per space though. There were some discussions about this and the solutions we thought about are:

• allow to disable realtime collaboration per user / space / page
  • Is realtime editing good for any document?
  • Add user and wiki preference for realtime editing
• implement drafts
  • Realtime: Auto-save original document vs. a draft
• merge auto-save revisions
  • Squash auto-saved document revisions?
  • Do we need a Cancel button for realtime editing? - #13 by vmassol

But neither of them has been implemented yet.