SID-00308: Strange macros in docs of 4.3.0 installation

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.3.0	Perl version:	5.8.6
Category:	CategoryDocumentation	Server OS:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6)	Last update:	16 years ago

I've installed a TWiki 4.3.0 site. Afterwards, I noticed that, in the "All Admin Tools Category Topics", a number of the topics show "%IF..." in the description. Obviously, this is some sort of macro that decides what the information should be, but it appears not to be working. Have I missed setting up something properly?

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-05-11

Discussion and Answer

The admin tools category at TWiki04x03.AdminToolsCategory contains a SEARCH that uses a $summary in the format="". The summary shows the initial text without any formatting. Variables are stripped by default. There seems to be a bug where variables with parameters such as %IF{ "condition" then="something" else="something else" }% are not stripped completely. This is a display issue only.

I tested this at Sandbox.TestSearchOnIF (currently on TWiki 3.0) and on a TWiki 3.1.2 installation, same behavior.

Feel free to file a bug report.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-05-11

Where's the documentation on how to file a "bug report"?

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-07-24

Nevermind -- should've looked further.

-- DavidMasterson - 2009-07-24

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