Using %MAINWEB% can bite you badly

Specifically, if you do what appears to be the "proper" thing to do -- use %MAINWEB% instead of Main -- none of those references get fixed if you move a topic. Grrr.

-- Contributors: MeredithLesly

Discussion

Same problem with TWiki05x01, of course.

-- MeredithLesly - 16 May 2006

Can you elaborate more?

-- RafaelAlvarez - 16 May 2006

If a topic has a reference to Main.Foo and you move Main.Foo to another web, the reference will be updated to the new topic. If, however, you have a reference to %MAINWEB%.Foo and move the topic, then references won't be. This is actually more of a problem with TWiki, since there are many more uses of %TWIKIWEB% than %MAINWEB%.

-- MeredithLesly - 17 May 2006