Bug: Creation of Topic with Webform - Initial values are only assigned if Form is bound to TopicTemplate

Adding a Topic by using a form pointing to the edit script ignores Webform values if the TopicTemplate? doesn't contain the specified webform

Test case

After rechecking the problem i found out, that in any cases i add the formtemplate parameter to the url the formvalues are ignored and set to form defaults.

Without knowing the code i guess that there is something with the formchange logic. If you change the form the values are wiped out and i guess that the new values are wiped out while the form is added.

MartinCleaver thankfully helped me finding this bug. We worked together in IRC. See http://koala.ilog.fr/twikiirc/bin/irclogger_log/twiki?date=2004-10-21,Thu&sel=123#l119 for detail on the conversation.

Environment

-- ChristianKalkhoff - 21 Oct 2004

Follow up

Is anybody looking at this?

I have pooked around in Beijing save script and Cairo Save.pm trying to spot why it works in Beijing and not in Cairo.

I have not suceeded - too much a novice when it comes to TWiki core programs

I cannot migrate to Cairo before this is fixed, so I have chosen to use the workaround presented above
- thanx a lot for supplying it ChristianKalkhoff and MartinCleaver

Workaround:

  ...
  <input  type="hidden" name="formtemplate"  value="FooForm" />
  <input  type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="FooTopicTemplate"/> 
  ...

  ...
  <input  type="hidden" name="Xformtemplate"  value="FooForm" /> <!-- Bug in Cairo: make sure FooTopicTemplat contains FooForm -->
  <input  type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="FooTopicTemplate"/> 
  ...

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