list of placeholders to be used in a ticket comment

[Markus Rosjat]

Hi there,

is there a list of usable placeholders to use in a ticket comment? 

background:

I want to make smal macro that i can use in a ticket comment to add a line with a date, the user , the time and a short comment. So i would at least need a hint on the user that is editing the ticket.

on a other note, is macro still a valid way to approach stuff or should i take a look at plugins? 

cheers 

Markus

[RjOllos]

On Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 11:47:10 PM UTC-7 markus...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there,

is there a list of usable placeholders to use in a ticket comment? 

Nothing thus far. It might be reasonable to have a "default_comment" setting in the [ticket] section:

https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracIni#ticket-section

 

background:

I want to make smal macro that i can use in a ticket comment to add a line with a date, the user , the time and a short comment. So i would at least need a hint on the user that is editing the ticket.

You want the macro to be added to every comment? You can certainly do that with a macro, and you could auto-add the macro using JavaScript, but there may be a better way such as writing a plugin to add the info to the page.

This might be completely unrelated, but for a long time I've been wanting to work on ITicketCommentProvider so that a plugin could add a ticket comment:

https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/12485

 

on a other note, is macro still a valid way to approach stuff or should i take a look at plugins? 

Macro vs plugin really just depends on your use case. However, the macro vs plugin difference can often be confused with single-file plugin vs setuptools-packaged plugin, since macros were often implemented as single-file plugins in early versions of Trac. I found this aspect confusing when I first started with Trac.

 

cheers 

Markus