Question

I want to use a form in two different but very similar webs. I therefore defined the form with explicit web references for the value templates. That way, I was sure that the data could be seen from the other web. Here is the beginning of the form:

| *Name* | *Type* | *Size* | *Values* | *Tooltip message* |
| SalesType | select | 1 |  | Major client category |
| Transit.SalesPerson | checkbox | 4 |  | Prime Infodev sales contact |

I have purposely entered SalesType as a relative web reference and Transit.SalesPerson as an absolute web reference in order to illustrate my problem.

When editing a page, and adding a form to it (not even from the other web), all values are displayed properly which means that TWiki can read either of the lists, however if I click on Transit.SalesPerson I get:

TWiki . Transit/Transit . SalesPerson (oops, web doesn't exist) 

Attention 
The "Transit/Transit" web does not exist 

What is wrong here?

I have tried all sorts of work arounds using variables. Forms doesn't like variables.

Is there a simple way to define a set of forms in one web (including values pages) which can be used from another web without recopying all these topics?

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, TopicVarsPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, ActionTrackerPlugin, CalendarPlugin, EditTablePlugin, InterwikiPlugin, LdapPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, TablePlugin, TocPlugin
Server OS:	Free BSD
Web server:	Apache
Perl version:
Client OS:	Windows 2000
Web Browser:	Explorer

-- AlainMivilleDeChene - 17 Oct 2003

Answer

See fix in Codev.WebDotTopicFormFieldNamesDontWork

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Oct 2003