Feature Proposal: Need Parent Topic as Variable

Motivation

There are variables that give the TOPIC name, INCLUDINGTOPIC name, and BASETOPIC name.

We need a variable for PARENTTOPIC.

Description and Documentation

PARENTTOPIC -- parent of current topic

• Syntax: %PARENTTOPIC% or %PARENTTOPIC{ format="..." topic="..." }%
• Expands to: FeatureRequest, renders as FeatureRequest
• Parameters:

  Item	Description	Default
  format="..."	Format string used to display parent topic, where $web expands to the web name, and $topic expands to the topic name. Additional formatting tokens can be used.	"$topic" (topic name)
  topic="..."	Get parent of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"	"%WEB%.%TOPIC%" (current topic)

• Related: META, METASEARCH, TOPIC

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: VickiBrown, PeterThoeny

Discussion

%META{"parent" format="$topic" dontrecurse="on"}% displays the parent of a topic: FeatureRequest

Though it's a bit of a PITA to use

It's not really clear to me from your description what it is you actually want. How would a variable help you "reset the parent"?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 02 Jul 2007

Good idea for usability. Adding myself as committed developer.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-22

This is now AcceptedBy7DayFeedbackPeriod.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-30

This is now implemented and documented in SVN trunk.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-30

Now that this is implemented I realize that we have an inconsistency in syntax:

• PARENTTOPIC for variable
• topicparent for URL parameter to edit and save script
• $parent in FormattedSearch

Possibly deprecate URL parameter topicparent (but leave implemented) and add parenttopic? Or add parenttopic as undocumented parameter for those who assume things (like me?)?

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-01

For now I added parenttopic as undocumented parameter. If there are opinions to change the documented parameter we can change/deprecate the current syntax.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-01

sticking to "parenttopic" in URL parameter is good idea

-- SopanShewale - 2010-07-02