Question

I've tried various ways with no success. Is it possible to specify the options for an HTML select where part of the option is a TWiki variable? That is:

<form name="new" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH%/edit%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%WEB%/">
|  *NEW  Topic:* | <select name="topic" size="1"> \
                  %INCLUDE{ActionPlanOptions}%
                   </select> <br /> Note: This must be a TWiki.WikiWord. |
| &nbsp; | <input type="submit" value=" Create "/ > |
<input  type="hidden" name="onlywikiname" value="on" />
<input  type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="FindingsSummaryAndActionPlanTemplate" />
<input  type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="%TOPIC%" />
<input  type="hidden" name="CreationDate" value="%SERVERTIME{"$day $mon $year"}%" />
<input  type="hidden" name="DocumentOwner" value="%WIKINAME%" />
</form>

The topic ActionPlanOptions is of the following form:

%STARTINCLUDE%<option selected value="">Select...</option> \
<option>%TOPIC%SiteOne</option> \
<option>%TOPIC%SiteTwo</option> \
<option>%TOPIC%SiteThree</option> \
<option>%TOPIC%SiteFour</option> \
<option>%TOPIC%SiteFive</option> \%STOPINCLUDE%

The options, when pulled into the current topic, should then have %TOPIC% expanded to the current TOPIC.

REALITY: Instead, %TOPIC% is rendered in ActionPlanOptions and the resulting form is:

I've tried adding as in

%<nop>TOPIC%

I want to use an include to make it easy to add new items to the list, very similar to how %WEBLLIST% can create dynamic select lists but I would like the selection to be TOPIC-context sensitive. I've created an example at DynamicHTMLSelectFromInclude just to prove to myself that it is not site (mine) specific.

Environment

-- SteveRJones - 03 Feb 2004

Answer

Won't %INCLUDINGTOPIC% do the trick? I've modified your sample application accordingly.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 05 Feb 2004

Yes, and now I feel really stupid. I read that and re-read that description but not until now does it make sense. Thanks!

-- SteveRJones - 06 Feb 2004