Difference: TWikiTemplates (36 vs. 37)

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TWiki Templates

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 TIP Tip: If you want to override existing templates, without having to worry that your changes will get overwritten by the next TWiki update, change the {TemplatePath} so that another directory, such as the %USERSWEB% appears at the front. You can then put your own templates into that directory or web and these will override the standard templates. (Note that such will increase the lookup time for templates by searching your directory first.)

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TMPL:INCLUDE recursion for piecewise customisation, or mixing in new features

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TMPL:INCLUDE recursion for piecewise customization, or mixing in new features

  If there is recursion in the TMPL:INCLUDE chain (eg twiki.classic.tmpl contains %TMPL:INCLUDE{"twiki"}%, the templating system will include the next twiki.SKIN in the skin path.
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<		For example, to create a customisation of pattern skin, where you only want to over-ride the breadcrumbs for the view script, you can create only a view.yourlocal.tmpl:
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%TMPL:INCLUDE{"view"}%
%TMPL:DEF{"breadcrumb"}% We don't want any crumbs %TMPL:END%
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 %NOP% can be used to prevent expansion of TWiki variables that would otherwise be expanded during topic creation. For example, escape %SERVERTIME% with %SER%NOP%VERTIME%.

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3. Control over variable expansion

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3. Causing variable expansion in a section

  You can forcefully expand TWikiVariables by placing them inside a type="expandvariables" section in the template topic, such as:
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4. Specifying variables to be expanded individually

You may want to mix variables to be expanded and variables not to be. By prepending a variable name with EOTC__ (EOTC followed by two underscores; EOTC stands for Expand On Topic Creation), you can have the variable expanded.

Here's an example. 

%EOTC__SEARCH{"."
 topic="%URLPARAM{prefix}%*"
 nonoise="on"
 format="$percntINCLUDE{$topic}$percnt" separator="$n"
}%
This yields a series of %INCLUDE{...}%s, which are not expanded. This is not achievable by an expandvariables section.
 

Specifying a Form

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  Here is an example for creating new topics (in the Sandbox web) based on a specific template topic and form:
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  • New example topic:
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The above form asks for a topic name. A hidden input tag named templatetopic specifies ExampleTopicTemplate as the template topic to use. Here is the raw text of the form: 

%EDITFORMFIELD{ "new" type="start" action="edit" topic="Sandbox.%TOPIC%" }%
   * New example topic: 
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "topic" type="text" value="ExampleTopicAUTOINC0001" size="30" }%
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "templatetopic" type="hidden" value="%SYSTEMWEB%.ExampleTopicTemplate" }%
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "topicparent" type="hidden" value="%HOMETOPIC%" }%
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "onlywikiname" type="hidden" value="on" }%
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "onlynewtopic" type="hidden" value="on" }%
     %EDITFORMFIELD{ "form" type="submit" value="Create" }%
%EDITFORMFIELD{ "form" type="end" }%
 
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  • New example topic: <input type="text" name="topic" value="ExampleTopicAUTOINC0001" size="30" />
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<		 <input type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="ExampleTopicTemplate" /> <input type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="%TOPIC%" />
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>		 <input type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="%SYSTEMWEB%.ExampleTopicTemplate" /> <input type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="%HOMETOPIC%" />
  <input type="hidden" name="onlywikiname" value="on" /> <input type="hidden" name="onlynewtopic" value="on" /> <input type="submit" class="twikiSubmit" value="Create" /> </form>
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<form name="new" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH{save}%/Sandbox/" method="post">
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