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avatar anarcheuz
anarcheuz
9 Jul 2014

Steps to reproduce the issue

Uninstall a plugin and reinstall it.

Expected result

The description in the manifest shouldn't be displayed in the installation page.

Actual result

The description of the plugin is being displayed in the installation page after installation completed.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 3.3
PHP 5.4.4

Additional comments

Is there a way to prevent the description from appearing in the installation page juste after installation completed ?

avatar anarcheuz anarcheuz - open - 9 Jul 2014
avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 9 Jul 2014

Why should the description not be shown?
I think its by design that we do show it for every extension that is installed.

avatar anarcheuz
anarcheuz - comment - 10 Jul 2014

screen shot 2014-07-10 at 00 49 08screen shot 2014-07-10 at 00 51 26
As you can see on the pictures, so you say it is normal behaviour for joomla ? Is there a way to prevent manifest's description from showing up in installation page ?

And is it possible for the plugin to echo some text only in the plugin's description page ?
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avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 10 Jul 2014

As you can see on the pictures, so you say it is normal behaviour for joomla ?

Yes, it is the expected behaviour.

Is there a way to prevent manifest's description from showing up in installation page ?

No, you can't hide it. The manifest description is meant to be shown there.
However you can show different descriptions during installation/upgrade and when editing the plugin. In the extension manager, the sys.ini language file is loaded, while when you edit the plugin it will load the regular language file. Thus if you remove the buttons and copyright from the sys.ini language file, you should get about what you want.

What you also can do is create a description fieldset in your manifest and put your extended description into that fieldset. When you edit the plugin, you will see the short description from the manifest and below a link to get an extended description, which basically selects the "description" tab.

avatar anarcheuz
anarcheuz - comment - 10 Jul 2014

What you also can do is create a description fieldset in your manifest and put your extended description into that fieldset.

Actually, the pictures I showed you are from another plugin. I have already a description fieldset (metadata) in my plugin's manifest. It is that one that is showing up after installation and in the plugin's editor. How can I do like you said : to have a link pointing to another description.
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avatar anarcheuz
anarcheuz - comment - 10 Jul 2014

How can I do like you said : to have a link pointing to another description ?
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avatar Bakual Bakual - change - 10 Jul 2014
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-07-10 14:06:43
avatar Bakual Bakual - close - 10 Jul 2014
avatar Bakual
Bakual - comment - 10 Jul 2014

As said, create a fieldset named "description" in your manifest and add some fields to it with the extended description you want to show. Joomla will automatically do the rest.

I'm going to close this issue as it's not a bug and issues are not meant for support requests.
Please open a thread at the Google Mailinglist: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/joomla-dev-general

avatar zero-24 zero-24 - close - 10 Jul 2014
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