One of the things that should probably be noted is that, if I recall
correctly, this was the feature that required the addition of the
wgVisualEditorFullRestbaseURL configuration - previously there was just
wgVisualEditorRestbaseURL. You'll need to set up RB and point that config
var at it.
On 20 February 2017 at 21:02, John P. New <wikitech(a)hazelden.ca> wrote:
On February 20, 2017 08:34:35 PM James Forrester
wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 at 10:42 John P. New
<wikitech(a)hazelden.ca> wrote:
> I've set up MW 1.28 with VE/parsoid and everything is working well
>
> However, when I edit in (any) wikitext editor and try to switch to VE,
I
> am presented with a dialog with only 2
choices: "Cancel" or "Discard my
> changes and switch". Diving into the code I found I could change
> ve.init.MWVESwitchConfirmDialog.js (line 58) from
> modes: [ 'restbase' ]
> to
> modes: [ 'restbase', 'simple' ]
>
> that adds "Switch" to the dialog box, but when this option is chosen,
any
> changes made in the wikitext editor are
lost.
>
> Is this a mis-configuration on my part or is switching from edited
> wikitext to VE not supported? Do I need a RESTbase server to implement
this
functionality?
RESTbase provides the switching-with-changes ability, yes. There's a
reason
VE doesn't offer switching-with-changes
without it. :-) In general,
fiddling with the code inside an extension is always going to break.
J.
Thanks for the clarification.
Should this be noted in the setup instructions for Visual Editor? It would
have saved me a lot of head-scratching and investigation time.
And yes, I realize messing with the code will break things, but it was my
way of finding out that I might need a RESTbase server and to point to
where my problem was. :-)
John
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