Question

Im looking for a way to obtain a topics parent via a % expansion rule. Something like %PARENT%. Ive tried %META{"parent"}% but that only works in the templates, not within the topic text itself.

I ended up hacking on TWiki.pm (line 1336 or so)

$_[0] =~ s/%TOPICPARENT%/&renderParent( $_[2], $_[1], (&TWiki::Store::readTopic($_[2],$_[1]))[0], 'dontrecurse="1"' )/goe; 

but there has got to be a better way then having to re-read the topic. Anyone???

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-- JohnCavanaugh - 20 Jun 2002

Answer

There is currently no clean way to do that. See also Codev.FormattedTWikiFormDataInTopicText and Codev.SimplifyInternalMetaDataHandling

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 2002