Question - Including from non-wiki named topics

This is a question about trying to track historical information. I have various software releases that consist of notes and a table of all the issues repaired. I have a single page that keeps the "CurrentReleases" (What we're working on) and a page that keeps "PastReleases" (What we've completed).

Unfortunately these are indentified by expected delivery date. I was hoping to make a single topic such as Notes20030702 and Table20030702 that contains the information and display them in CurrentReleases or PastReleases via INCLUDE[ But I can't seem to get INCLUDE to accept a non-wiki word for a local web include.

Am I just trying to do this all wrong? Is there a better way? I know that duplicated information is totally wrong that's why I wanted to link.

(I had a topic called AllReleases which was going to list all releases and allow selection of a single release (showing both notes and table as includes) or just the pieces on the appropriate forms. As you can guess, this hasn't gone well.

Any ideas?

Rob

• TWiki version: 01 Feb 2003
• Perl version: 5.8.0
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-- RobKenyon - 02 Jul 2003

Answer

Why don't you simply call the topics-to-be-included something like NotesFrom20030702 and TableAbout20030702? Then you can include them...

(By the way, I noticed you said Perl 5.8; if you're having problems with that, try using v5.6.1 instead; this is known to work better (but if it works don't fix it )).

-- TorbenGB - 03 Jul 2003

I thought I'd tried that, but I guess I started it as Notes2003... and that wasn't accepted - going to NotesRelease2003... Didn't make a difference. The INCLUDE isn't done if there's a string of digits in it. All I get is the text:

%INCLUDE["NotesRelease20030617s1"]%

I have confirmed that more generic topics work just fine. Note that even here this plain text (not verbatim) doesn't attempt to retrieve the topic. I've tried prefixing with the web name - no changes.

Note: I've seen no issues on our box using Perl 5.8 - It may just be a matter of time but we're not working Twiki very hard at this time.

Thanks - any other ideas?

-- RobKenyon - 03 Jul 2003

I've noticed a lot of strangeness around %INCLUDE - I've found that if I type it directly it usually doesn't work - as if there's a hidden character stopping it from working. If I steal a working one from somewhere else (via cut/paste) it works fine - I can even edit the referenced topic and it keeps working.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior?

-- RobKenyon - 29 Jul 2003