Item6984: The WEBLIST in AdminToolsCategory is currently broken in trunk.

The issue is only in trunk, same report works properly in the 5.1 branch, e.g. it is a code issue, not a WEBLIST usage issue.

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 2012-10-14

This is fixed now.

Currently special strings in the format parameters are handled as follows.

• $web and $name need to be at a word boundary (\b) to be expanded. $web1 and $name1 are not expanded.
• $marker, $qname, $indentedname don't have be at a word boundary to be expanded.

Now that FormatTokens can be used (r23518 onward), we can make the behaviors of $marker, $qname, and $indentedname consistent with $web and $name without sacrificing expressiveness - $marker$nopSOMETHING.

I understand compatibility matters. But I wonder what you think, Peter.

-- TWiki:Main.HideyoImazu - 2012-10-15

Looking at SEARCH, it has lots of variables that do not require word boundaries:

                    $out = $format;
                    $out =~ s/\$web/$web/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$topic\(([^\)]*)\)/TWiki::Render::breakName( $topic, $1 )/ges;
                    $out =~ s/\$topic/$topic/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$date/$revDate/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$isodate/$isoDate/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$rev/$revNum/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$wikiusername/$wikiusername/ges;
                    $out =~ s/\$ntopics/$ntopics/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$nhits/$nhits/gs;
                    $out =~ s/\$wikiname/$wikiname/ges;

I recommend to stay compatible.

BTW, I don't like the syntax for $qname because one could write as well "$name", e.g. overkill. Same with $indentedname, it clobbers indent and topic name, so it is not easy to create custom link formats with indents. For inconsistent variables like these I recommend to retire them by keeping feature as undocumented feature, and to introduce new variables that are more consistent.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-10-16

Thanks, that fixed another issue: The Home pulldown menu show gray web color for all webs instead of actual web colors.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-10-16

I am setting this to "Closed" since it was a bug introduced and fixed in trunk only, e.g. not to be announced in a release.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-12-15