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Item5701: tempatetopic not implemented as per the docco in TWikiScripts

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Engine   Urgent Closed   patch 4.2.1, 5.0.0

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wow - this code has gone off. there's a newtopic urlparam to Save Script that isn't doccoed, and does something odd too.

SaveScriptTests::test_templateTopicTextSave unit test seems to assert the exact opposite of the docco (the code thinks that once a topic exists the templatetopic is irrelevant) :

  • The new text is taken from the text parameter, if it is defined,
    • otherwise it is taken from the templatetopic, if it is defined,
    • otherwise it is taken from the previous version of the topic, if any,

and I think the same thing is occurring for META.

I think the doccoed version is superior - comments?

I'm setting this to urgent, as its been a lingering complaint that Lynnwood was going to put in a bug report for, and I also have been expending too much effort into workarounds for it.

another example:

    my $mum;
    if( $newParent ) {
        if( $newParent ne 'none' ) {
            $mum = { 'name' => $newParent };
        }
    } elsif( $templateMeta ) {
        $mum = $templateMeta->get( 'TOPICPARENT' );
    } elsif( $prevMeta ) {
        $mum = $prevMeta->get( 'TOPICPARENT' );
    }
    $newMeta->put( 'TOPICPARENT', $mum ) if $mum;
seems to me to be broken because while there might be a $templateMeta, it may not have a TOPICPARENT set - in which case the $prevMeta should be used.

none of these bugs matter to most users until they start to craft Save URL's manually for applications - but at that point, they become vital.

-- TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - 13 Jun 2008

having played around a little with the code, and seen that the redefinition occurred between Cairo and 4 I'm leaning towards leaving templatetopic as it is, only used for new topic creation, and instead making a texttemplate and settingstemplate to go with the formtemplate setting (which does work at any time), so that the twiki app developer can control precisly which part of a topic to copy into another.

-- TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - 13 Jun 2008

Sounds like a feature proposal candidate to me.

And one you will get my support for.

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 13 Jun 2008

y, and safer too: actually, its an amendment to TWiki:Codev.AddSettingsTopicParamToEditAndSave

this Bug is morphing into a docco fix for 4.2.1

-- TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - 13 Jun 2008

I vaguely remember asking for clarification on this one, because I couldn't understand why on earth you would ever want it to work the way it did. To me, templatetopic means "a topic to be used as a template when creating a new topic", rather than "a means to blow away any text parameter you might pass to the save". I agree with your conclusions, though long term I might have preferred to see a mechnanism by which I could template any part of a topic that is indexable under the terms of the QuerySearch syntax.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Jun 2008

I'm doing a docco fix for TWikiScripts, and will move the enhancement info to TWiki:Codev.AddSettingsTopicParamToEditAndSave

-- SvenDowideit - 25 Jun 2008

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Summary tempatetopic not implemented as per the docco in TWikiScripts
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit
Codebase 4.2.1, ~twiki4
SVN Range TWiki-5.0.0, Sun, 01 Jun 2008, build 16865
AppliesTo Engine
Component

Priority Urgent
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:16936 TWikirev:16937
TargetRelease patch
ReleasedIn 4.2.1, 5.0.0
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Topic revision: r8 - 2008-08-04 - KennethLavrsen
 
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