Feature Proposal: add format to META{"parent"}

Motivation

(originally written in HowToShowParentTopics) Today I was missing the ability for META{"parent"} to use a format parameter. So now I have a small update to RenderDotPm that makes this possible (for the $web and $topic values).

Syntax:

%META{"parent" nowebhome="on" format="something before $web.$topic something after" prefix="" suffix=""}%

-- ArthurClemens - 26 Mar 2005

Impact and Available Solutions

Note: Patch is attached as render_parent_with_format. The patch is against RenderDotPm svn rev 1747.

Documentation

Forthcoming

Examples

Real life example that uses AddFormfieldParamToMetaParent:

<div class="twikiHomePath">
You are here: [[%WEB%.WebHome][%WebPreferences.CLIENTNAME%]] %META{"parent" formfield="Pagetitle" nowebhome="on" format=" <span class='twikiSeparator'>&gt;</span> [[$web.$topic][$formfield]]"}% <span class='twikiSeparator'>&gt;</span><strong> %FORMFIELD{"Pagetitle" topic="%TOPIC%" format="<nop>$value" alttext="<nop>%TOPIC%"}% </strong>
</div>

Implementation

See patch.

Discussion:

I don't think this is acceptable, for the reasons given in AddFormfieldParamToMetaParent, so I'm dropping it from Dakar.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 Apr 2005