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Include "Page Break" feature with Fogbugz Wiki integration
Hi Peldi,
I discovered this link on the site and thought I'd post it here! I know right now you're looking at similar wiki integration for Fogbugz as you have with xwiki. One of the other features I have seen missing for a long time, that becomes especially more apparent with a potential mockups integration with the Fogbugz wiki is the noticeably missing "page break" feature.
Technically xwiki is missing this too, but it can be worked around by putting a simple snippet of html code in the xwiki code.
{{html}}[p style="page-break-before:always"][/p]{{/html}}
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With the bit of ajax experience I have, I am sensing this could be tied to a new button in the tool bar when editing the wiki, or something on the right click.. and it could put in a dashed line in the wiki editing mode to indicate a page break.
What I found in xwiki while doing this is when printing to a PDF, etc. the pdf engine will generally respect this markup and insert a page break when printing.
The value in this is that normally we setup our documents like a word file, with 1 or 2 mockups per page. Depending on the size and number of mockups, we have little control over how it prints, and end up with a title on one page and the mockup on the next. Typically we do not have this issue with text and things dont get broken up as easily.
I had the same issue in xwiki but found many xwiki folks had the problem in general, and used the above code to get around it.
For this one user, this one small feature (hopefully) would pretty well end the need for me to use Microsoft Word ever again to write a spec. Everything could be tied to a Fogbugz case in the wiki.
I am sending this to Fogbugz as well, but in case they don't feel it's a core feature of high value to their users right away, I know this one thing would make a big difference for me in using mockups with the Fogbugz wiki.. so perhaps it could be considered..
Thanks!!
Jas
I discovered this link on the site and thought I'd post it here! I know right now you're looking at similar wiki integration for Fogbugz as you have with xwiki. One of the other features I have seen missing for a long time, that becomes especially more apparent with a potential mockups integration with the Fogbugz wiki is the noticeably missing "page break" feature.
Technically xwiki is missing this too, but it can be worked around by putting a simple snippet of html code in the xwiki code.
{{html}}[p style="page-break-before:always"][/p]{{/html}}
(repace [ ] with < >)
With the bit of ajax experience I have, I am sensing this could be tied to a new button in the tool bar when editing the wiki, or something on the right click.. and it could put in a dashed line in the wiki editing mode to indicate a page break.
What I found in xwiki while doing this is when printing to a PDF, etc. the pdf engine will generally respect this markup and insert a page break when printing.
The value in this is that normally we setup our documents like a word file, with 1 or 2 mockups per page. Depending on the size and number of mockups, we have little control over how it prints, and end up with a title on one page and the mockup on the next. Typically we do not have this issue with text and things dont get broken up as easily.
I had the same issue in xwiki but found many xwiki folks had the problem in general, and used the above code to get around it.
For this one user, this one small feature (hopefully) would pretty well end the need for me to use Microsoft Word ever again to write a spec. Everything could be tied to a Fogbugz case in the wiki.
I am sending this to Fogbugz as well, but in case they don't feel it's a core feature of high value to their users right away, I know this one thing would make a big difference for me in using mockups with the Fogbugz wiki.. so perhaps it could be considered..
Thanks!!
Jas
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Inappropriate?An Update:
This all may be redundant. Fogbugz 7 has a Wiki Blocks plugin where you can create your own information blocks that can be dynamically, or statically generated. One example is the Table of Contents plugin. You can even add items to the "Insert" menu in Edit mode. Conceivably you can create your own plugin and distribute it.
This might be a fun one for someone to tackle as the basic sample code is probably enough. Sadly I don't have VS 2005 or 2008 handy or I'd give it a shot. Having seen the example in the source code, I don't think this would be more than a few hours (famous last words!).
I was going to delete this question, but I'll leave it up in case it gets indexed by google and someone else is wondering the same.
Jas
I’m amused
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Inappropriate?Hi Jas, we'll see if we can find the time to cook up a "page break" plugin for FogBugz of our own...we'll make it free and OSS if we do!
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