Question

Hi,

I do a search based on a form and retrieve the formfields into a table.

I'd like to use one of the formfields in an external link showing up in the result table, where the formfield is actually a value in the external URL.

Something like:

%TABLE{ footerrows="1" }%
| *Name*|
%SEARCH{ ".[M]ETA.FORM.name=.*GtBbNewApplicantForm."  casesensitive="on" regex="on" nototal="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" multiple="on" format="|[[http://directory.com/query.cgi?alias=$formfield(LdapName)][%ICON{person}%]]   | 

Is there any way to get this work? I tried to escape some of the characters and also tried a

 <ahref....>fdf</a> 

Environment

-- KaiMoorfeld - 12 Jul 2007

Answer

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The form field isn't the problem. TWiki gets confused by the quotes which are expanded by %ICON{person}%, they destroy the parsing of your format attribute. The character you need to escape is the percent character of that tag: $percntICON{person}$percnt. Let me demonstrate with the SupportStatus field of this topic's WebForm, using TWiki's own search as external URL (I restrict the search to the current topic, for obvious reasons):

%TABLE{ footerrows="1" }%
| *Name* |
%SEARCH{ ".[M]ETA.FORM.name=.*Form."  casesensitive="on" regex="on" nototal="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" multiple="on" topic="%TOPIC%" format="|[[%SCRIPTURL{view}%/%WEB%/WebSearch?search=$formfield(SupportStatus)][$percntICON{person}$percnt]]|"}% 

Name

-- HaraldJoerg - 12 Jul 2007