SID-01081: Documentation of %META:PREFERENCE

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.1	Perl version:	Perl v5.12.2
Category:	CategoryDocumentation	Server OS:	Fedora Core 14	Last update:	14 years ago

In the 5.x version of Twiki, in the UserForm there is a META tag that I can find no documentation on. How is it used?

Example:

%META:PREFERENCE{name="VIEW_TEMPLATE" title="VIEW_TEMPLATE" type="Local" value="UserView"}%

-- GregoryPotts - 2011-01-21

Discussion and Answer

You are right, %META:PREFERENCE is not documented in TWikiMetaData, it should be. I filed TWikibug:Item6642 to track that. TWiki is open source, feel free to contribute doc improvements.

META:PREFERENCE basically stores the topic preferences settings you can enter via the "more topic actions" screen.

For example, these settings:

• Set FOOD = Sushi
• Local DRINK = Sake

%META:PREFERENCE{name="FOOD" title="FOOD" type="Set" value="Sushi"}%
%META:PREFERENCE{name="DRINK" title="DRINK" type="Local" value="Sake"}%

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-01-21

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