SID-00430: Expand Search Results On Template Copy

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I want to templatize a page that creates a table from current search results.

e.g. my template topic contains somethnig like this

%TABLE{ caption="<b>Development Process</b>" initsort="1" initdirection="up" }%
| *Name* | *Complies (Y/N/n/a)*| *Comments* |
%SEARCH{ "META:FIELD.*?Type.*?Development Process" topic="Standards*" type="regex" 
   format="|$topic| | |" }%

which will produce a list (table) of all current Standards topics that match the "Development Process" type.

When I make a new instance topic from the template, I don't want to copy the (dynamic) SEARCH; I want to copy the current results. I want the resulting page to contain a static table of links with columns for adding compliance info and comments.

I had hoped that type=expandvariables would do the trick but it ignored the SEARCH line completely.

Is there any hope?

-- VickiBrown - 2009-07-21

Discussion and Answer

In the template topic, did you try to enclose the whole table including search in:

%STARTSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%
...
%ENDSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%

See details in "control over variable expansion", TWikiTemplates

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-07-25

Yes, that's what I meant by "I had hoped that type=expandvariables would do the trick".

However, after your comment, I experimented further and a simple SEARCH, e.g.

%STARTSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%
%SEARCH{"Vbrown" casesensitive="on" scope="topic" format="   *  [[$topic]]"}%
%ENDSECTION{ type="expandvariables" }%

So there seems to be something about the SEARCH code in my actual template that is preventing type=expandvariables; from working. It's complex SEARCH code, full of pattern=... sections. I will need to investigate further. (I also have plans to simplify the search dramatically; it's not my code.

-- VickiBrown - 2009-07-27

-- VickiBrown - 2009-07-27

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