Question

I just upgraded from 4.0.1 --> 4.2.0 and now all topics with a period (.) in the name are broken.

It looks like the prior behaviour was to simply strip the period out of the name, but now it appears to translate all periods to slashes and view them as web/topic references.

I don't see anything related to this in the 4.2.x release notes or bug reports. Am I missing something?

Is there anyway to revert to the old behaviour? I did a quick search and found over 400 broken references in one web alone.

EDIT: I have verified that my NameFilter is identical on both systems.

Thanks!

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 25 Sep 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Topics with period in name was not a documented feature. Apparently the implementation changed and this no longer works. I recommend to fix all topic names and links. The GlobalReplacePlugin might come in handy.

-- PeterThoeny - 07 Nov 2008