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FORMFIELD{"fieldname"} -- renders a field in the form attached to some topic

  • Syntax: %FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%
  • Supported parameters:
    Parameter: Description: Default:
    "fieldname" The name of a TWiki form field required
    topic="..." Topic where form data is located. May be of the form Web.TopicName Current topic
    format="..." Format string. Supported variables:
    $value - form field value
    $value(20, -<br />) - value hyphenated every 20 characters using separator -<br />
    $value(30, ...) - value shortened to 30 characters
    $length - length of value (can be used to test if value is set)
    $title - raw field name (includes space and other special characters)
    $name - field name (sanitized title)
    $attributes - form field attributes
    $formtopic - name of form definition topic
    "$value"
    default="..." Text shown when no value is defined for the field ""
    alttext="..." Text shown when field is not found in the form ""
    newline="$br" Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters. Variable $br expands to <br /> tag, and $n to a newline. Other text is encoded based on encode parameter. no conversion
    encode="html" Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as "html". Additional encodings available: encode="quote", encode="moderate", encode="safe", encode="entity" and encode="url". See ENCODE for details. "" (no encoding)
  • Example: %FORMFIELD{"ProjectName" topic="Projects.SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="ProjectName field not found"}%
  • Example: <input type="text" name="Address" value="%FORMFIELD{ "Address" encode="html" }%" />
  • Related: ENCODE, METASEARCH, SEARCH, FormattedSearch, QuerySearch, SearchHelp
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Topic revision: r6 - 2013-02-28 - PeterThoeny
 
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