Question

I'm completely baffled by this one problem in my TWiki. I want the Form output to show on top of the text output on the saved file. In my TWiki, I have "hacked" the edit.tmpl so that the FORMFIELDS are on top. I've figured how to change cgi-bin/preview so the preview puts the FORM stuff on top. However, even when the preview looks right, with the Form at the top, the save file results in the reverse. Here's my web address:

http://www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/polsgrad/twiki/view/Biblio/WebHome

Here is a sample article where the form output is at the bottom:

http://www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/polsgrad/twiki/view/Biblio/PJTestArticle

I've been looking a lot in Store.pm and Meta.pm to try to find where to reverse something, but I'm baffled, as I said.

• TWiki version:
• Perl version: 5.6
• Web server & version: TWiki20011201.tar.gz
• Server OS: DEC (Compact) Unix
• Web browser & version: Mozilla
• Client OS: Linux

-- PaulJohnson - 19 Feb 2003

Answer

If I understand your wants correctly, you shouldn't need to edit any files other than the templates (most specifically edit, preview, and view). Basically what you want to do is create a new skin (see TWikiSkins for details).

For example: copy view.tmpl to view.myskin.tmpl .Edit view.myskin.tmpl and reverse the two lines containing =%TEXT%

%TMPL:P{"standardheader"}%
</form>
%META{"form"}%
%TEXT%
%META{"attachments"}%
%TMPL:DEF{"topicaction"}%

To test add "?skin=myskin" to the url (http://www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/polsgrad/twiki/view/Biblio/WebHome?skin=myskin)

-- MattWilkie - 19 Feb 2003 _

Thanks very much. You are right. I was looking to hard in the Perl stuff, not hard enough at the template

-- PaulJohnson -20 Feb 2003