Question

Greetings,

We're still n00b's when it comes to TWiki, but I haven't been able to figure out where to look for this problem.

Today a user identified a problem: At the top of each page is the following test:

%BROADCASTMESSAGE%

Also, on the left sidebar the Tip of the Day is now showing as:

TWiki Tip of the Day %CALC{$NOP(%)SEARCH{ \"^$GET(topic)$\" web=\"$GET(web)\" scope="topic" regex="on" nosearch=\"on\" noheader=\"on\" nototal=\"on\" limit=\"1\" format=\"[[http://mytwiki/twiki/bin/view/$web/$topic][$pattern(.*?\-\-\-\+([^\n\r]+).*)]] $summary(100, noheader) Read on \"}$NOP(%)}%

Is the problem that the BROADCASTMESSAGE variable no longer valid? Where do I find that variabel defined? Is the same true for %CALC?

Thanks

Environment

-- MichaelWeremecki - 28 Feb 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The BROADCAST message is defined in TWiki.TWikiPreferences. Overload it in Main.TWikiPreferences. It needs to be defined as an empty setting, or you see a literal %BROADCAST%.

On CALC, it could be that the SpreadSheetPlugin is not enabled, or that you introduced a newline in the leftbar where the CALC is.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Mar 2007

Thanks Peter. All problems were resolved by editing TwikiPreferences. Strange thing though - the 'set broadcast message' variable was equal to empty, and in fact wasn't changed in any of the previous versions. It wasn't until I changed the one beneath 'If you use PatternSkin' that the change took effect.

-- MichaelWeremecki - 01 Mar 2007