SID-02140: After upgrading to Twiki 6, WebTopicCreate is not working.

Status:	Asked	TWiki version:	6.0.0	Perl version:	Perl 5.18
Category:	CategoryTemplates	Server OS:	Ubntu	Last update:	10 years ago

I am not sure what changed, but I cannot create new topics, unless I add the wiki word to an old topic and then click on it to edit.

What must be in place, that a new topic can be created using the WebTopicCreate function? Currently when I add a topic, it loops from

twiki/bin/view/GMS/WebCreateNewTopic?topicparent=WebHome

to

twiki/bin/view/OTRS?onlynewtopic=on&nowysiwyg=0&topic=ANewTopic&topicparent=WebHome&templatetopic=

Then I can click on the 'old style' create link and it loops back to

twiki/bin/view/OTRS/ANewTopic?create=on&newtopic=ANewTopic&template=WebCreateNewTopic&topicparent=WebHome

I'm going insane here. Any help is appreciated.

-- Shawn Beasley - 2015-12-29

Discussion and Answer

You are not alone: Tracking errors in TWiki's template hierarchy is a pretty reliable way to go mad.

The surprising thing in your description is that you are jumping across webs: twiki/bin/view/GMS/WebCreateNewTopic?topicparent=WebHome looks like a perfect URL to create a new topic in the GMS web. The next URL should start with twiki/bin/edit/GMS? - note "edit" instead of "view", and "GMS" instead of "OTRS". So, this appearance of "OTRS" is the main clue.

Maybe you've carried over a customisation from a previous version?

Here are some things you could check:

• In raw view, the topic WebCreateNewTopic in the GMS web (in fact, in each web) should have just one line of content in HTML comments, saying * Set VIEW_TEMPLATE = WebCreateNewTopic.
• By TWiki's template resolution, this should point to TWiki/WebCreateNewTopicTemplate - a topic in TWiki's template language, unless you have a topic GMS/WebCreateNewTopicTemplate. So you could check whether TWiki/WebCreateNewTopicTemplate is "as delivered" in TWiki 6 (last author should be TWikiContributor), or whether there's a topic GMS/WebCreateNewTopicTemplate from an older version. If the latter of the two, you might need to adapt a customization to TWiki 6.

-- Harald Jörg - 2015-12-29

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