SID-01248: Display variable stored in form field

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.2	Perl version:	5.8
Category:	CategoryAPI	Server OS:	AIX	Last update:	14 years ago

Hello,

I have form fields which contain TWiki variables. I want to be able to do a search of the topics, and display the TWiki variable without having it resolve.

i.e. The form field targetTime contains %SOMEVAR%, and lets say that %SOMEVAR% is equal to "3", so when I do a search and display this form field in a table (!$formfield(targetTime)), I want the screen to display %SOMEVAR%, not "3".

Not sure if it's possible with the current program flow, or if I can do some series of escapes or TRANSLATES to get out the desired result.

Merci!

-- AaronLWalker - 2011-08-08

Discussion and Answer

Not sure if this works, have you tried to embed $formfield(targetTime) in <verbatim> tags? You need to escape verbatim as well, such as <$nop()verbatim>...<$nop()/verbatim>.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-08-08

That does it! I actually worked that out, but was working on getting it all wrapped in the BeautifierPlugin when I ran into more problems. Perhaps another support question in the future... Thanks!

-- AaronLWalker - 2011-08-09

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