SID-01440: Variable expansion etc. in TOC{"Topic"}

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.1	Perl version:	5.10.1
Category:	CategoryRendering	Server OS:	Debian squeeze	Last update:	13 years ago

We recently upgraded our TWiki install from Cairo to Istanbul (5.1.1), and found that some things in %TOC{"Topic"}% no longer worked. E.g. if in Topic there was a header:

---+ Chapter %SOMEVAR%

or:

---+ Chapter %CALC{$GET(someVar)}%

then when including that TOC on another page with %TOC{"Topic"}% the variables would not get expanded. Also with the Plugins.ExplicitNumberingPlugin section numbers like:

---+ ##. Bla

would not get expanded.

An essentially one-line fix to TWiki.pm (which makes _TOC call handleCommonTags for other-topic TOC's) solves these problems. So far I haven't seen any negative side-effects on our wiki.

• twiki-pm.patch: Patch to TWiki.pm

Discussion and Answer

I can reproduce this on TWiki.org, which runs the latest TWiki. Please check TestTocInclude1. Could you file a bug report at TWikibug:WebHome ?

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-03-29

Bug filed, see Item6864.

-- GertjanVanOosten - 2012-04-03

Thanks Gertjan, this is now in SVN trunk and TWiki-5.1 branch.

-- PeterThoeny - 2012-04-03

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