Question

If a page has a form, I would like to wrap the form in a Twisty on View.

I thought to duplicate the way the twisty wrapping of the attachments table is done but I'm a bit confused.

I see where the view.pattern.tmpl shows the form.

%TMPL:DEF{"form"}%%META{"form"}%%TMPL:END%
%TMPL:DEF{"formattop"}%%TMPL:END%
%TMPL:DEF{"formatbottom"}%%TMPL:P{"form"}%%TMPL:END%

I have tried simply putting a TWISTY into the

%TMPL:DEF{"form"}%

but that fires even if there is no form.

I want to see the TWISTY if there is a form and not if there isn't. I'm stumped.

I tried

TMPL:DEF{"form"}% %META{"form"}% %TMPL:END%
%TMPL:DEF{"topicformtwisty"}%%TWISTY{ mode="div" showlink="Show Form" hidelink="Hide Form" showimgleft="%ICONURLPATH{toggleopen-small}%" hideimgleft="%ICONURLPATH{toggleclose-small}%" }%
%META{"form"}%
%ENDTWISTY%
%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"formattop"}%%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"formatbottom"}% 
%IF{" '%TMPL:P{"form"}%' = '' " then="" else="%TMPL:P{"topicformtwisty"}%"}% 
%TMPL:END%

but the %IF is failing.

How do I test IF there is a form...?

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 14 Aug 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.

The attachment twisty is located in attachtables.pattern.tmpl. Likewise a form twisty must go into formtables.pattern.tmpl. The code then looks like this:

%{ These templates define the form attached at the bottom of viewed page. }%


%TMPL:DEF{"starttopicformwisty"}%%TWISTY{id="topicformlist" mode="div" remember="on" link="%MAKETEXT{"Form"}%" showimgleft="%ICONURLPATH{toggleopen}%" hideimgleft="%ICONURLPATH{toggleclose}%"}%%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"endtopicformwisty"}%%ENDTWISTY%%TMPL:END%


%{ Start of form table }%
%TMPL:DEF{FORM:display:header}%<div class="twikiForm">%TMPL:P{"starttopicformwisty"}%
<table class='twikiFormTable' border='1'>%TMPL:P{FORM:display:header:headerrow}%%TMPL:END%


%{ Header }%
%TMPL:DEF{FORM:display:header:headerrow}%<tr><th class='twikiFormTableHRow twikiFirstCol' colspan='2'>
[[%A_TITLE%]]
</th></tr>%TMPL:END%


%{ Each row }%
%TMPL:DEF{FORM:display:row}%<tr valign='top'><td class='twikiFormTableRow twikiFirstCol' align='right'> %A_TITLE% </td><td>
%A_VALUE%
</td></tr>%TMPL:END%


%{ Footer }%
%TMPL:DEF{FORM:display:footer}%</table>%TMPL:P{FORM:display:footer:editlink}%
%TMPL:P{"endtopicformwisty"}%</div><!-- /twikiForm -->%TMPL:END%

To give the twisty toggle link the same style as the attachment twisty link, add this to pattern skin's style.css:

.twikiForm .twistyTrigger .twikiLinkLabel {
   font-size:122%; /* h4 size */
   font-weight:bold;
}

-- ArthurClemens - 17 Aug 2008