SID-00146: Using forms and templates

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.4	Perl version:	5.10
Category:	CategoryForms	Server OS:	Win Server 2003	Last update:	16 years ago

I would like to do the following using TWiki:

1. User wants to create a new standard page. 2. The edit mode will open the edit zone (where a template can be visualized) and a form (because it it attached to the template).

Question: 1.How can I make such that at the first editing I can see only the Form that needs to be completed and not the edit mode. 2.How can I manage such that after saving the data from the form is displayed only in the template, but not in the form at the bottom at the page?

-- RoxanaCraciun - 02 Mar 2009

Discussion and Answer

1) Include these lines in the template that creates the topic to overload the Edit action to use your form instead of the full-screen editor (and include a textarea in your form for any text that is to be included:

<!--
   * Set VIEW_TEMPLATE = (Your)View
   * Set EDITACTION = form
-->

(optional) You might want to hide the table row above the form that normally lets the user replace the form: See RemoveFormNameFromFormDisplay.

Note that if you edit this topic now, you will only see the form! A work-around to get past that to the text editor is click "Save and Continue".

2) To hide the form at the bottom, see my comment in AttachmentTableGone

-- SeanCMorgan - 02 Mar 2009

Thank you very much...it really helped!

One more question though; form me the code which is supposed to remove the form name does not work, I mean this code

Any idea why? Doesn't it have to be placed on the form page? or on the template page? Anyhow i tried both and it doesn't work:(

-- RoxanaCraciun - 03 Mar 2009

I don't know why removing the form name isn't working any more (it doesn't work on that Support page either).

Here's another way: similar to TWiki:Support.HowToHideReplaceFormButton except I hid the row instead of just the button:

1. Copy /templates/form.tmpl to form.noreplace.tmpl
2. In the copy's <table class="twikiFormTable"> change <tr> into <tr style="display:none">
3. Set the cover for the topic (in the template) with a TWiki variable: Set COVER = noreplace

-- SeanCMorgan - 03 Mar 2009

ok...now it works! Thanks!

-- RoxanaCraciun - 04 Mar 2009

Sorry to reopen this question. But how do things change when using NatSkin? Because it does not recognize any of the settings that work for pattern skin.

If i put in the url ;action=form, it works, otherwise it just ignores it. I am also interested in displaying only the information from the form in a template and not the form under the topic. Thank you!

-- RoxanaCraciun - 02 Apr 2009

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