[PATCH] Allow tweaking of the "author" field

[Matthijs Kooijman]

When anonymous users create a new ticket, they must fill in their name / email address in a field called "author". However, unlike the normal fields, this field uses just "author" as the field name and id, without the "field-" prefix the other fields use.

The author field is also used when an anonymous user adds a comment or edits a ticket.

The attached patch adds a special case to the ticket.html stream editor that leaves out the "field-" prefix for the "author" field. Changes are not required anywhere else, since the author field is mapped onto the "reporter" field of the ticket.

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Patch against r8017 to allow more fields to be edited

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Patch against r8017 to replace tags in labels as well

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Patch against r8017 to replace the legend of a fieldset as well

[Matthijs Kooijman]

I've just updated this patch and added a few more. The original patch was renamed to allow-more-fields.patch (feel free to delete the now-empty allow-author.patch). The new patch allows tweaking not just the "author" field, but also the "comment" field, the "properties" and "action" fieldsets and each "action" option.

I've added two subsequent patches. thorough-label-replace.patch makes the label replacement a bit more thorough. Previously, all the text nodes below the label node were replaced with the new label. When replacing the "comment" label (which includes a link, so has a text node, followed by an <a> node, followed by another text node), the label would be messed up. This patch first removes all children (both text and normal nodes) and then appends an new text child with the new label.

The final patch, change-fieldset-legend.patch, allows replacing the "label" of a fieldset ("properties" or "actions") as well, by replacing the contents of the legend node instead of the label node.

[Ryan J Ollos]

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