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FORMFIELD{"fieldname"} -- renders a field in the form attached to some topic

• Syntax: %FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  "fieldname"	The name of a TWiki form field	required
  topic="..."	Topic where form data is located. May be of the form Web.TopicName	Current topic
  format="..."	Format string. $value expands to the field value, and $title expands to the field title	"$value"
  default="..."	Text shown when no value is defined for the field	""
  alttext="..."	Text shown when field is not found in the form	""

• Example: %FORMFIELD{"ProjectName" topic="Projects.SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="ProjectName field found"}%
• Related: SEARCH

Comments & Questions about this Distribution Document Topic

Is there any way to pull in form fields from an older version of a topic?

-- NatalieBrown - 2011-12-15

If yo look at an older topic version that has a FORMFIELD it will pull the vale of that field as it was at that topic version.

Please ask support questions in the Support web, this section is about the documentation of this feature. You can submit feature proposals in the Codev web.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-12-16