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Item13757: Move SHORTDESCRIPTION into PackageForm.

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Priority: Normal
Current State: Closed
Released In: 2.0.2
Target Release: patch
Applies To: Engine
Component:
Branches: master
Reported By: MichaelDaum
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Last Change By: GeorgeClark
While %$RELEASE and %$VERSION are added to the System.PackageForm, %$SHORTDESCRIPTION is not stored in a structured way other. At best plugin authors set an according preference variable:

   * Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = %$SHORTDESCRIPTION%

This makes it unnecessarily hard to extract the description, i.e. in Extensions.JsonReport which uses the pattern() feature of %SEARCH for that. Expensive.

Instead we should add

| Description | text | 60 | | one line description of the module |

to the PackageForm. BuildContrib needs according fixes as well to extract the formfield content when converting the extension topic.

Extensions.PackageForm needs to be changed as well.

Further work in Item13750

-- MichaelDaum - 26 Sep 2015

 
Topic revision: r3 - 10 Oct 2015, GeorgeClark
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