SID-00683: Using Template Pages - some questions

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Hello all,

I am in the process of setting up Twiki as a knowledge base at my workplace and want to use the Twiki templates to create a consistent look across the wiki, for example for topics that can be classed as "general information" have a template with the main headings already set out so that people have something to work with rather than starting from scratch every time. I have a couple of questions:

1) For every topic based on a template I want there to be a corresponding discussion page. I have set up a template called GeneralArticleTemplate which contains the following line:

Click here to discuss this article.

So a link to a child topic with a name related to the parent topic (based on the template) is created and can be used as the Discussion page. However what I also want to do is for the Discussion page to have the %COMMENT% variable automatically inserted. I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Can anyone help here? I am not sure if it's even possible to insert a variable into a child topic when the parent topic is created via a template.

2) Whenever I try to create a new topic using a template and I select "Allow non WikiWord for the new topic name" it still tries to force a WikiWord type syntax. For instance trying to call a topic "This is not a Wiki Word" results in a topic called "ThisisnotaWikiWord". The reason I am trying to avoid WikiWords is that they appear to be very unpopular with the people I work with who seem to prefer the idea of free links. However it seems I can't use a template to create a topic that has a non WikiWord name. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards Richard Smith

-- RichardMSmith - 2009-12-21

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