Bug: Sitemap ignores site preferences

I need to be able to keep WEBBGCOLOR of a few webs in sync, so I assigned a default WEBBGOLOR in TWikiPreferences and specified a custom WEBBGCOLOR only in those webs that need their own (different) WEBBGCOLOR. This works fine, TWiki uses the WEBBGCOLOR definied in TWikiPreferences for all webs that don't have a WEBBGCOLOR defined in their WebPreferences (as documented).

In the sitemap, however, these webs are displayed on a black background, which is not quite the desired effect...

Test case

Remove the WEBBGCOLOR setting from the WebPreferences in one of your webs and check the sitemap.

Environment

-- JohannesMartin - 25 Mar 2003

Follow up

I changed the previous "proper" way of extracting the web background color in the SiteMap for performance reasons: A $pattern(...) search in a FormattedSearch extracting the WEBBGCOLOR from a web is much faster then getting a variable value from a web using %VAR{"WEBBGCOLOR" web="$web"}%.

The performance loss does not matter if you have just a handful of webs, but it does if you have more then 50 or so webs.

TWiki has the WEBBGCOLOR defined in the WebPreferences by default, so the $pattern(...) search does always work in a standard TWiki installation.

You can use the %VAR{"WEBBGCOLOR" web="$web"}% search instead, which you probably want for your special case. How:

Replace:

  bgcolor=\"$pattern(.*?\* Set WEBBGCOLOR\s*=\s*([^\s]*).*)\"

With:

  bgcolor=\"%VAR{"WEBBGCOLOR" web="$web"}%\"

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Mar 2003

Fix record

No plan to fix since it works with the default installation.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Mar 2003