Item12422: Support PAGETITLE Macro in stock template

Although programmers really like strictly named "Keys" to topic names (like this one, Item12422 :-), less technical users want to see something more descriptive in the Browser page title, history, bookmarks, etc.

Having seen a few references to a PAGETITLE variable floating around, I implemented this variable "wiki-side" in a skin template that overrides %TMPL:DEF{"windowtitle"}% (Reference).

I would like to see this code added to foswiki.tmpl to avoid the need for an extra cover/skin and to make PAGETITLE part of the standard distribution so that everyone can benefit, not just "my clients".

Note: I see that this Tasks application is using something akin to PAGETITLE, as part of the ItemView View template (i.e. the page title is Item12422: Support PAGETITLE Macro in stock template, not Item12422 < Tasks). Suport for the PAGETITLE variable will make changng the title easier, without need for a special VIEW_TEMPLATE.

Template Code

Current code in foswiki.tmpl

%TMPL:DEF{"windowtitle"}%<title>%TMPL:P{"titleaction"}% <nop>%BASETOPIC%%TMPL:P{"titlesep"}%%BASEWEB%%TMPL:P{"titlesep"}%<nop>%WIKITOOLNAME%</title>%TMPL:END%

Recommended new code

%TMPL:DEF{"normalwindowtitle"}%<title>%TMPL:P{"titleaction"}% ** <nop>%TOPIC% ** %TMPL:P{"titlesep"}% %WEB% %TMPL:P{"titlesep"}% <nop>%WIKITOOLNAME%</title>%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"dbwindowtitle"}%<title>%TMPL:P{"titleaction"}%<nop>%PAGETITLE% %TMPL:P{"titlesep"}% %WEB% %TMPL:P{"titlesep"}% <nop>%WIKITOOLNAME%</title>%TMPL:END%

%TMPL:DEF{"windowtitle"}%%TMPL:P{"titleaction"}%%IF{"defined PAGETITLE" then="%TMPL:P{"dbwindowtitle"}%" else="%TMPL:P{"normalwindowtitle"}%"}%%TMPL:END%

-- VickiBrown - 11 Mar 2013

I'm not quite understanding where PAGETITLE comes from. Is it just a SET statement in the current topic. Setting this to proposal required.

-- GeorgeClark - 24 Dec 2014

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