Feature request: Add parent variable to template
A lot of times I miss the ability to simply get the topic's parent. Template/skin authors could be helped by adding a %PARENT% variable that can be read in templates.
Patch
Again, I have problems creating a patch file from UI/View.pm.
Anywhere, but perhaps at line 251 of UI/View.pm rev. 1.1:
if ( $meta ) {
my %parent = $meta->findOne( %_Q__Q_% );
my $parentName = "";
if (%parent ) {
$parentName = $parent{"name"};
}
$tmpl =~ s/%PARENT%/$parentName/go;
}
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ArthurClemens - 22 Apr 2004
Looks workable. Putting it on my queue...I think I'll probably get this and a few of the others in on Tuesday.
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WalterMundt - 25 Apr 2004
Isn't this functionality already covered by
%META{"parent"}%
as documented in
TWikiMetaData. To make it consistent I suggest not to introduce a new variable; if needed add a new switch to the
%META{"parent"}%
variable.
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PeterThoeny - 25 Apr 2004
PeterKlausner's additional patch moved to
MetaExpansionImprovements and assigned to Dakar. No-one in the core team seems interested in doing it for Cairo.
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CrawfordCurrie - 08 Jul 2004
Fixed the form data, this is not in Cairo. Better to add a switch to
%META{"parent"}%
.
See also related
FormattedSearchWithParentTopic, which is implemented in
CairoRelease.
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PeterThoeny - 27 Jul 2004