Question

I create a new topic using a form. The resultuing URL evaluates like follows:

.../cgi-bin/edit/Support?topic=AbcDef&templatetopic=Template&topicparent=WebHome

I have created a template to be taken as master - it works. So far so good.

But one thing i want to recreate in my template topic which is done when giving no teplate in the URL. It is the "-- Main.WikiName - date" line.

I tried to specify

"-- %WIKIUSERNAME% - %SERVERTIME{"$day $month $year}% <br />"

but no complete success. The wiki user name is correctly replaced by the variale contents in the edit box, but not the time.

Any ideas ?

• TWiki version: 1 Dec 2001
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: SunOs 2.7
• Web browser: Netscape 4.78 (NT)
• Client OS: Win NT 4 (SP5)

-- PetricFrank - 16 May 2002

Answer

write:

-- %WIKIUSERNAME% - %DATE%

These are the only two variables which currently get expanded at topic creation time.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2002

Maybe we could introduce an % EXPAND{}% variable through which the user could designate any variables that they wish to have expanded at creation time.

-- MartinCleaver - 11 Aug 2003

Good idea. Time for EnhancementRequest. See related MoreExpansionInTemplateTopic, MoreExpansionInTemplateTopic, ExpandUrlParamForNewTopics

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Aug 2003