Plots2: Limit extra long wiki titles

[GettyOrawo]

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🤔 What you will need to know.

There is a small section of wiki title creation that hasn't been taken care of. A wiki title needs to be as brief as any other title. However there are no limits to this when creating a wiki. http://localhost:3000/wiki Our title can, in worst case, look like this:

We can add an HTML attribute maxlength="" to the title field and set it equal to the number of characters you are limiting to. In our case we can limit title characters to 50 or 60. Your choice.

The target file and line number is:
https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/blob/master/app/views/wiki/edit.html.erb#L61

Add the attribute to this input tag and test if it is working. Note that only admins can create new Wikis so you will have to log in as an admin if you want to see this play on your local server. All the best! :smile:

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[GettyOrawo]

@publiclab/reviewers

[harshkhandeparkar]

@publiclab/plots2-reviewers

[GettyOrawo]

Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

[jeremypurser]

Hi! Could I claim this?

[GettyOrawo]

sure @jeremypurser ! :smile:

[Aaru143]

Is this issue still open ? Can I claim it ?

[IshaGupta18]

Can you try to reproduce the problem on public lab's website and check if the problem still exists? If it does, go ahead and solve it!

[kvenkman]

6381 Submitted a PR here

[discombobulateme]

Hello :) may I be assigned to contribute on this issue?

[IshaGupta18]

I think someone has already submitted a PR on this, could you please find
some other issue to work on? Thank you

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 11:22 PM Paloma Oliveira [e-mail]
wrote:

Hello :) may I be assigned to contribute on this issue?

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[cesswairimu]

Looks like this is not solved yet...I will update the details and maybe we should limit it 200 or 150 as a start?...the longest title I could find on the website is 143 chars

[cesswairimu]

Just ran into https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/pull/6381#issuecomment-575679544 . Closing this. Thanks all