Question

I have AliasPlugin installed, but it is only partly working. I am not sure how to debug this problem. The issue is that I can't get things setup so aliases are automatically applied to all the pages.

If I add %STARTALIASAREA% and %STOPALIASAREA% to a page then the aliases within that area are applied, and the %ALIAS{...}% tags are processed, so I know the plugin is working.

I have view.alias.tmpl installed with this default content:

%TMPL:INCLUDE{"view"}%
%TMPL:DEF{"contentheader"}%%STARTALIASAREA%<div class="twikiBeforeText"></div>%TMPL:END%
%TMPL:DEF{"contentfooter"}%%STOPALIASAREA%<div class="twikiAfterText"></div>%TMPL:END%

I have setup SKIN as alias,pattern in my preferences as described in the docs, but it doesn't seem to work. I have also tried adding ?skin=alias to a url but the aliases are still not replaced.

I tried editing view.pattern.tmpl and adding the %STARTALIASAREA%/%STOPALIASAREAD% to things like %TMPL:DEF{"contentheader"}% to no avail (I also added text which appeared on the page so I could tell the TMPL change was being applied).

So I guess I really have multiple questions.

1. Does anyone have this working on 4.2?
2. If you have it working, was anything extra done to make it work?
3. Can anyone tell me how to debug the TMPL definitions, the order they are applied, etc., so I can figure out if the problem is the %STARTALIASAREA%/%STOPALIASAREAD% not being included properly vs. their not being processed properly vs. something else?

Environment

-- GeoffreyLowney - 28 Mar 2008

Answer

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-- PeterThoeny - 01 May 2008

Works fine here. Try the following (however I think you did something like this already). Create a topic Sandbox.AliasPluginTest with the following content:

%ALIAS{name="Foo" value="Bar"}%

Foo

   * Set SKIN = alias,pattern

Get the latest version of the AliasPlugin and try again. Works here without a problem.

-- MichaelDaum - 02 May 2008