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    <p>I have written a GUI extension for SDL Tridion 2011 SP1. The GUI consists of an extra ribbon button and event handler which is triggered when a component is saved.</p> <p>My event handler is registered as follows:</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>PowerTools.Commands.ItemCommenting.prototype._execute = function (selection) { var item = $display.getItem(); $evt.addEventHandler(item, "save", this.getDelegate(this._onItemSaved)); $cme.getCommand("SaveClose")._execute(selection); }; </code></pre> <p>and the event handler looks like this:</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>PowerTools.Commands.ItemCommenting.prototype._onItemSaved = function (eventitem) { var comment = prompt("Please enter a comment", ""); $messages.registerNotification("Saving user comments..."); var commentitemid = eventitem.source.getId(); var commenterid = eventitem.source.getCreatorId(); var commenter = $tcm.getItem(commenterid); var commentername = commenter.getDescription(); var commentdate = eventitem.source.getLastModifiedDate(); var commentversion = eventitem.source.getVersion(); //Call the service to update PowerTools.Model.Services.AppDataServices.Append("ext:ItemCommenting", commentitemid, "&lt;comment&gt;&lt;user&gt;" + commenterid + "&lt;/user&gt;&lt;message&gt;" + comment + "&lt;/message&gt;&lt;datetime&gt;" + commentdate + "&lt;/datetime&gt;&lt;version&gt;" + commentversion + "&lt;/version&gt;&lt;/comment&gt;", null, null, null, false); }; </code></pre> <p>This is working fine, except that the variable <code>commentername</code> is always undefined. Is there a better approach for getting the name and description of a user?</p> <p>Additionally, does anyone know if the value returned by <code>eventitem.source.getCreatorId()</code> is actually the Reviser or actually the person who created the item?</p>
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    1. COSmall remark. You should call command.invoke(selection); rather then command._execute(selection); Otherwise extensions for SaveClose command will not be applied and you could potentially get js errors.
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    2. COCalling getCreatorId() on an item indeed returns the person who created the item and not the last person to modify it.
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