SID-00928: How to set a new topic template for creating topics

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryTemplates	Server OS:	cent0S 5	Last update:	13 years ago

I have been trying to figure out how to use a template to pre fill a new topic that is being created by clicking a wikilink from and exsiting topic.

I only want new topics created from this specific topic to get the format so I can't edit the global edittopictemplate.

Is there a way to define that new links from a topic get a certain template?

-- ScottGutman - 2010-08-05

Discussion and Answer

You can create a specific topic create link with a parameter to set a template. Example:

[[https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/edit/Support/?topic=FooBar;onlynewtopic=1;templatetopic=MyCustomTemplate][Create FooBar topic]]

If you want that a specific template is used in a particular web, create a WebTopicEditTemplate topic in that web. It overloads the default one defined in the TWiki web.

See details at TWikiTemplates, TWikiScripts

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-05

You can also install the ChildTopicTemplatePlugin, which I just made more robust & updated for TWiki-5.0.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-06

thank you,

ChildTopicTemplatePlugin is exactly what i was looking for and works perfectly!!

-- ScottGutman - 2010-08-09

I am glad it worked out. Please consider contributing back to the TWiki community. Open source is about using and giving back.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-10

Small error in example above: topictemplate --> templatetopic

-- JanRiis - 2012-10-26

Thanks Jan, example is fixed now.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-10-26

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