Question

I have a WebForm based classification ssytem. Each of the classifications has a topic that does a search for topics with that classification and offer the user a form to create a new topic that will be of that classification.

The form looks like:

<FORM action="%SCRIPTURL%/edit/%WEB%/">
|  *Create a new Topic:*  ||
|  Topic Name (as wikiword): | <INPUT type="text" name="topic" size="32"> |
|  Summary of Topic: | <INPUT type="text" name="summary" size="45" |
<INPUT type="hidden" name="class" value="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%">
<INPUT type="submit" value="Create">
</FORM>

The "summary", "class" and "topic" (i.e. topic name) are the parameters.

In WebTopicEditTemplate there is the body of the new topic plus the classification form.

%META:FIELD{name="TopicClassification"  title="TopicClassification" value=" %URLPARAM{ class }% " }%

My question is about the quotes and escaped quotes for the URLPARAM.

I don't seem to be able to get it right. Can someone help my confusion please.

Environment

-- AntonAylward - 04 Nov 2004

Answer

You do not need the use URLPARAM for form fields; URLPARAM can only be used in the topic text. Simply pass the name and value of the field to the edit script, e.g. in your case:

<input type="hidden" name="TopicClassification" value="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%" />

TWiki will take care of the filling the form field.

-- PeterThoeny - 04 Nov 2004