Question

The usage of WikiName in a Topic which is INCLUDES(ed) to a Topic in another Web will be expanded to MAINBWEB.WIKINAME instead to WikiName. Is this behaviour intentional?

Environment

-- SteveWeinreich - 28 Feb 2005

Answer

When you INCLUDE a topic located in Foo web into a topic in a Bar web, TWiki fixes internal links in the included topic with this rule:

• A regular WikiWord link is changed to Foo.WikiWord link so that the link points to the correct place
• A Bar.WikiWord link is changed to WikiWord link since it is now in the same web
• Any Otherweb.WikiWord link is left untouched

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Mar 2005

Well I have centralized the WebLeftBar´s to the Main web and in the Main.WebLeftBar I use

$PROPERSPACE(% WIKINAME %)

-- SteveWeinreich - 01 Mar 2005

In this case you can use a spreadsheet formula to cut of Main. before spacing out the name.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Mar 2005

I notice that this expansion occurs even when the WikiName cannot be used as a link, as in [[http://www.wincvs.org/ WinCVS]] expands to look like Otherwebname.WinCVS

Try using a ! before the wikiname you want to render as a non-link like this: [[http://www.wincvs.org/ !WinCVS]]

-- RobertEchlin - 22 Mar 2005