Question

There are variables that give me my TOPIC name, INCLUDINGTOPIC name, and BASETOPIC name.

What will give me my PARENTTOPIC name?

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 02 Jul 2007

Answer

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%META{"parent" dontrecurse="on"}% (see VarMETA) will produce a link to the parent. This is not quite equivalent to a plain variable, but as close as you can get. Please re-open if this doesn't help you!

-- HaraldJoerg - 02 Jul 2007

I don't want a link. I want the name.

for example, I have a template that pulls information from its parent topic's form. I've been setting the value of the parent using passed URL params when the template is used to create a page.

However, I recently renamed a bunch of pages while moving them to a new web. By the rtime this was done, I had to edit the children accordingly because their parent had undergone a name change. If I had a variable, I coould have simply reset the parent.

Feature request filed.

-- VickiBrown - 02 Jul 2007

duh

-- VickiBrown - 09 Jul 2007