How to customize Sitecore workflow Comment box - sitecore

I am working in Sitecore 7 and want to customise the comments textbox. I need following functionality:
Instead of Single line, I want to replace it with multiline.
Is it possible to have rich text box instead of single line to allow users to put more meaningful comments and those are visible in History too.

You have to modify a lot to do it. When you approve button is called this command :
<command name="item:workflow" type="Sitecore.Shell.Framework.Commands.Workflow,Sitecore.Kernel"/>
with some parameters
Inside this class you have next method :
protected void Run(ClientPipelineArgs args)
{
...
where you find next lines of code that is called to show single line input :
...
if (!flag1 && flag2 && !flag3)
{
SheerResponse.Input("Enter a comment:", "");
args.WaitForPostBack();
}

Yes, this is possible, but you'll have to essentially recreate and replace some basic functionality to do it. And worse... it will require use of SheerUI, which is not documented anywhere from Sitecore that I know of. You have to figure it out by disassembling existing code. If you look at Sitecore's implementation of say, the Approve action, you'll see there is a SheerUI call to get the comment text. (not looking at it right now, so I don't know exactly where this is) You'll need to replace this with a SheerUI call to load your own custom dialog. How do you do this? Well... man, wouldn't documentation on this be nice?

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Webstorm helper for requiring module

I'm looking for a way to require module easily with Webstorm (shortcut, plugin, intention, ...). Here is my use case :
Given my cursor located at the end of a unknown variable myVar somewhere in my JS file.
When I press a shortcut, I jump at the top of the file and var myVar = require('') is inserted with the cursor inside the empty string.
Then I type the name of the module and I press enter.
Then the cursor go back at the end of the variable.
Is there a way to do that ?
Please vote for WEB-14430.
You can try developing a custom intention - code intentions use the regular API for intentions. The intention classes need to implement the IntentionAction interface and to be registered using the bean in the plugin.xml (http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Developing+Custom+Language+Plugins+for+IntelliJ+IDEA)
See https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/plugins/groovy/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/groovy/intentions/control/SplitIfIntention.java - intention sample for Groovi.
See also http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/PluginDevelopment, http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5298765.
Live Templates is another option, but it just allows expanding certain abbreviation into a code snippet - no jumping, etc. - snippet will be expanded 'in-place'

Is there anyway to rename the "Source" button to something like "HTML"?

Is there anyway to rename the "Source" button to something like "HTML", I ask this as users are confused at how to add html code using the editor?
Yes, inside of the "lang" folder you will see all of the various language files.
For my case, and probably yours, You will want to edit the file "en.js". The file is "compressed" to some degree so it may be difficult to read, but it's still not too difficult to change one string. If you do plan on changing multiple strings you will most likely want to use a service to format Javascript.
Search for the following segment of code. It was one of the very last lines in the file.
"sourcearea":{"toolbar":"Source"}
change it to
"sourcearea":{"toolbar":"HTML"}
Avoid This Method Unless Required
And as for a very unsuggested method, since you can't modify the language files for some reason, you can modify the ckeditor.js file and force a specific label.
Inside of "ckeditor.js" change the line below
a.ui.addButton("Source",{label:a.lang.sourcearea.toolbar,command:"source",toolbar:"mode,10"});
to the follow code
a.ui.addButton("Source",{label:"HTML",command:"source",toolbar:"mode,10"});
The only thing modified is the "label" value in the above line. We remove the reference to the a.language.sourcearea.toolbar and insert a string in it's place instead.

joomla: customize text in user menu

In the user-menu module, I want to change the text in the div.login-greeting element (which is a child of the form#login-form element).
Right now, it says "Hi Steph," (supposing the username is Steph)
I want it to say "Hi, Steph".
That's all.
I can't figure out if what I need to do is a template override or something else... because I can't figure out where the heck these elements come from. I am fairly new to Joomla, and intermediate in php. I've found working with the module manager, adding class suffixes, placing module positions in index.php, etc. all quite straightforward. I did a template override for the login module, with no trouble. But the menu module is baffling me. Looking at the default.php, I can't even figure out how it puts the form in there when it's a user-menu and not just a normal menu. Where does this form come from?? How can I change it???
Go to language>en-GB>en-GB.mod_login.ini and change MOD_LOGIN_HINAME="Hi %s," to MOD_LOGIN_HINAME="Hi, %s" and save the file.
EDIT
If you need to change more strings it's better to create a file en-GB.override.ini inside language/overrides and put only the strings that you want to override from any extension. For example it might contain only:
MOD_LOGIN_HINAME="Hi, %s"
MOD_LOGIN_REGISTER="Click here to register"

woocommerce advanced templating

i´m developing a theme and for some reason i need to move the default position for breadcrubms (also for many other things) over woocommerce themes. Then i realised to do something like this on my functions.php:
function woocommerce_remove_breadcrumb(){
remove_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_breadcrumb', 20);
}
add_action('woocommerce_before_main_content', 'woocommerce_remove_breadcrumb');
function woocommerce_custom_breadcrumb(){
woocommerce_breadcrumb();
}
add_action( 'woo_custom_breadcrumb', 'woocommerce_custom_breadcrumb' );
And then on any template file, output the breadcrumb just with:
<? do_action('woo_custom_breadcrumb'); ?>
And works. My question is more than that. Is this the correct approach for something like this? I mean for anything over woocommerce, not just breadcrumb, for any pice, ratings, titles, buttons, sidebar, and so on.
What i´m thinking on is why woocommerce templates don´t come with more deep code. I mean, why there´s no such a single-content-loop.php template where you can just change the order of things, title, category, content, images, etc. in an easy way rather that hooking into functions?
I think that is an acceptable way to call the breadcrumbs explicitly. Sometimes it is easier to call a specific function than remove everything around it!
As for changing the order of things and getting into advanced customization; there isn't a single file, but a number of files working together. Create a folder in your themes root called 'woocommerce' and copy the following files for a safe override:
woocommerce/woocommerce-hooks.php:
Here are your hooks, including the ones you are overriding in your themes functions.php. Here is where you can experiment with removing and repositioning certain elements on your product page. Search for 'Sidebar' and you will see where the 'woocommerce_sidebar' action is added with the function it references in...
woocommerce/woocommerce-template.php:
Here are the functions used in template files to output content based on conditional statements. For instance, search for the 'Single Product' series and you can see which template files are used for which functions. For instance 'woocommerce_template_single_title' uses 'single-product/title.php' - if you copy over this folder and file you can make very specific edits to just the title section
Between these two files and their accompanying references (like title.php) I believe you can do the things you described. Let me know how it works out! I'm new to woocommerce too!

How to override the default text in MATLAB

In MATLAB, when you click File -> New -> Function M-File, you get a file with the following contents:
function [ output_args ] = Untitled( input_args )
%UNTITLED Summary of this function goes here
% Detailed explanation goes here
end
Is it possible to override this behaviour, and specify your own text?
(The motivation is that I'm trying to persuade my colleagues to document their m-files more thoroughly, and having default text for them to fill in might encourage them.)
I didn't even know File->New->Function did that.
The way I solved the issue was to write a function that you call via
>>newFunction myNewFunctionName
It then
pops up an inputdlg window, which asks the user for the synopsis and the H1 line and allows to already write help to explain input and output arguments. There, the user also selects whether myNewFunctionName is a function or a class in order to choose the right header and 'function call'
checks whether a function of the same name exists already
asks for a folder to save the function, and
opens the function in the editor
The header is set up so that it's easy to fill in info about input and output. It also automatically lists the username of the person who created the file as well as the date and the Matlab version.
EDIT
For new classes, the template function automatically makes sure that they subclass my general superclass that implements methods such as 'help' (which calls doc(class(obj)) )
Now if the template functionwould also write the algorithm part of the function, it would be really convenient. :)
EDIT2
Here's a link to the function on the file exchange.
I would suggest making your own default m-file template, called default.m for example, and placing it in a folder on the MATLAB path where your colleagues can access it. You should then set the file to be read-only. Your colleagues can then execute any one of the following commands in the MATLAB Command Window when they want to create a new function m-file:
open default.m
open('default.m')
edit default.m
edit('default.m')
The functions OPEN and EDIT will open a file in the MATLAB Editor. Since the file default.m is read-only, if anyone tries to save over it they will get a dialog box warning them as such and asking them to save to a new file (or overwrite it). That should keep them from accidentally modifying the template.
I searched through all text files starting from matlabroot folder, but could not find that template. Seems it's hard-coded, which is weird.
I like Jonas approach. As my two cents, you can download a function (not mine) doing similar things with some customization from here.
After more pondering, I've come up with a solution that I'm happy with, combining Jonas' and gnovice's answers. It's a function that creates a new m-file (with template documentation), and opens it in the editor. It is available from the Matlab Central File Exchange.