Item10801: Search is broken with PatternSkin on 1.0.9

Report from IRC, confirmed locally.

When PatternSkin is installed on Foswiki 1.0.9, the search results pages are empty.

The Extension form has been updated with a 1.1.x only warning.

-- GeorgeClark - 27 May 2011

Problem template is: PatternSkin/templates/search.pattern.tmpl - renaming the .bak file to restore the 1.0.9 version restores the search results.

-- GeorgeClark - 27 May 2011

Nothing else to be done right now, except for a direct download link to the old zip. But if they use the extension installer from configure it will give the old problem.

-- ArthurClemens - 27 May 2011

I don't see how we can fix this. But we do need to point users to the right (oder) version. And to not have the bug warning "*Foswiki 1.1.x ONLY* Breaks search on 1.0.x" forever (which likely diminishes your faith in foswiki's robustness) I would prefer to offer a separate download through the extension installer. For example as PatternSkin01x00 "for Foswiki version 1.0.0 to 1.0.9".

-- ArthurClemens - 27 May 2011

1.1's configure was enhanced at the last minute to supply release, version and pluginsapi as URLPARMs to FastReport.

So maybe we can think of a way to hide the latest PatternSkin from FastReport requests that omit this information (implies a 1.0.x install).

What is the fundamental reason that SEARCH is broken in PatternSkin now? Did some DEF get renamed? Can we not supply the missing def in a harmless way? Or is it some deeper problem?

-- PaulHarvey - 28 May 2011

I have 'fixed' the issue by re-introducing (legacy) TMPL:DEFs from older Foswiki that do not interfere with newer DEFs.

I have also re-released the skin to Extensions and removed the warning.

-- ArthurClemens - 28 May 2011

Cool

-- PaulHarvey - 28 May 2011

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