Question

On our TWiki, we are unable to edit topics. When I was out of town a couple of weeks ago, the TWiki was upgraded from a previous version (I don't know which) to 4.0.5. Ever since, instead of having Edit shown at the top of the topic it shows %EDITTOPIC%. It does not say "Edit" or "Edit this page", just %EDITTOPIC%. The link is not active and does nothing when it is clicked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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-- AaronMaynard - 18 Dec 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

It looks like you are using a non-standard skin. Study how the ClassicSkin and the PatternSkin present the edit link.

If you do not care about disabled edit links (e.g. when looking at older topic revs), you can define an EDITTOPIC setting in your TWikiPreferences topic:

   * Set EDITTOPIC = <a href="%SCRIPTURL{edit}%/Support/UnableToEditTopics?t=%SERVERTIME{$day$hou$min$sec}%">Edit</a>

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Dec 2006

Thanks for the quick response. When I posted this question I overlooked the TWiki plugins portion and left what was there by default. The truth is, I did not instal this TWiki, and I don't believe anything but the default was set up. So unless a plugin is included by default, I don't think any were added. The skin that is used is the default skin.

As far as editing the TWikiPreferences topic to what you described... I cannot do that either as the link to edit that topic also only shows %EDITTOPIC% and is not active.

-- AaronMaynard - 19 Dec 2006

Your safest bet is to reinstall the TWiki files from the package, and to review the configure settings.

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Dec 2006