Question

Pages that are created using a form (like this page was) don't get any Parent metadata. The net result is that all such form-created pages are orphans. This is a great pity! Would it not make sense that the parent would be the page with the create-form?

The URL for the edit view I am currently working in is http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/edit/Support/?topic=ThisPageHasNoParent&SupportStatus=AskedQuestions&onlywikiname=on and as far as I can tell, certain parameters are passed using ? as a separator. Would it be possible to extend this URL with another parameter in the lines of ?parent=(form source page) ?

If I knew more about the code behind Twiki then I would probably be able to create my own little hack for this in no time. Perhaps I'll be able to contribute such in the future, because I have finally gotten another pc at home that I will use as my Twiki sandbox for this very purpose.

• TWiki version: 01Dec2001
• Perl version: 5.6.something
• Web server & version: Apache 1.something
• Server OS: RedHat 7.something
• Web browser & version: IE6.0
• Client OS: WinNT4SP3

-- TorbenGB - 02 Apr 2003

Answer

Good point, and already possible with the topicparent=AnyTopic parameter. The docs are updated, see TWikiTemplates, Template Topics in Action.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Apr 2003

Follow-up

So simple, so elegant. Thank you Peter!

-- TorbenGB - 03 Apr 2003