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++ Issues

Ongoing issues, roughly in priority order Status is: D (Done), U (Uploaded)

How attachment are stored in the topic

Previously marked up HTML was used for the attachment information. Now a meta variable (see GenericMetaDataStoreForTopics) is used (an intermediate step that was in alpha used a slightly different FILEATTACHMENT variable). Uploading an attachment or editing a topic causes the format to be upgraded automatically - on viewing a temporary in memory conversion is done. Example of meta variable:

%META:FILEATTACHMENT{name="a.txt" version="1.1" path="c:\tmp\a.txt" size="18" date="20 Apr 2001 - 09:16" user="People.JohnTalintyre" comment="Sample text file" attr=""}%

The file attachment lines get expanded to table rows, using | | | syntax, which are then rendered as normal into a table. There are headings for the table and a footer is added if there are hidden attachments.

Note that the filename is appended at end of URL for viewing, so that browsers can use the extension to decide on the relavent application.

Moving attachments

An attachment can be moved from one topic to another. Click Action in the attachment table, then click Move Attachment. Choose the Web and Topic to move to and submit.

Differences to topics under RCS

If a topic is changed within the lock time (default 60 minutes), the most recent revision is updated. This is not the case with attachments, a new revision is always formed.

"Un-documented" cmd parameter is not support for attachments. So the last upload can't be deleted.

Suffix for determining ascii formats

TWiki.cfg contains:

#                   Defines which attachments will be treated as ASCII in RCS
$attachAsciiPath  = "\.(txt|html|xml|pl)\$";

for deteriming which files are ASCII, others are stored as binary in RCS.

Where are files stored?

There are some potential issues to storing attachment history in the pub directory - see AttachmentsUnderRevisionControlHistory.

For the future

See AttachmentsUnderRevisionControlPostSpring2001

Also see

• AttachmentsUnderRevisionControlHistory for old information from this thread.
• RenameTopic
• WhatDifferenceBetweenATopicAndAWeb