Item5101: templatetopic and forms require fully qualified path names if they pointing to subwebs. Propose to allow relative path

I created a subweb: Friends/Vicki/Recipes.

In that subweb, I put a template, NewRecipeTemplateStrict, a TWiki Form, NewRecipeForm, and an HTML form to create a new page:

<form name="new" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH%/edit%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INTURLENCODE{"%WEB%"}%">
     <input type="hidden" name="action" value=form" />
     <input type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="WebHome" />
     <input type="hidden" name="onlynewtopic" value="on" />
     <input type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="NewRecipeTemplateStrict" />
     <input type="hidden" name="topic" value="RecipeXXXXXXXXXX" />

     <input type="submit" value="Create" />
</form>

When I clicked the "Create" button, I got an error message:

Attention

"Friends/Vicki.NewRecipeTemplateStrict" topic does not exist
You are trying to templatetopic a topic that does not exist.

When I fixed that problem, the new page was created in the Friends/Vicki sub (not the Recipes subweb) and the form was "not available".

Workaround

<form name="new" action="%SCRIPTURLPATH%/edit%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/%INTURLENCODE{"%WEB%"}%">
     <input type="hidden" name="action" value=form" />
     <input type="hidden" name="topicparent" value="%WEB%.WebHome" />
     <input type="hidden" name="onlynewtopic" value="on" />
     <input type="hidden" name="templatetopic" value="%WEB%.NewRecipeTemplateStrict" />
     <input type="hidden" name="topic" value="%WEB%.RecipeXXXXXXXXXX" />

     <input type="submit" value="Create" />
</form>

Problem

Apparently, "templatetopic" and "topic" URL parameters need to be fully qualified. Unlike most topic names, they aren't assumed to be in the "current" subweb. Most odd.

-- TWiki:Main/VickiBrown - 09 Dec 2007

I don't believe this is the case in Foswiki, but it needs testing.

• CrawfordCurrie - 03 Jan 2009

It is the same problem.

But I do not see it as a severe problem.

The problem arise when you call a script with a URL from an HTML form and give a template topic without the web prefix. Then it seems the edit script does not know which web to relate to. Before we fix this - we need to make sure we understand any other impact. The recent fixes we had to do on trailing / syntax shows that risk is high that fixing one thing breaks something else if we do it in a rush. So we need be careful and I prefer that we do this after 1.0.0 release. It is possible to make applications in subwebs as long as the templates are given with full path. So no release blocker.

-- KennethLavrsen - 03 Jan 2009

This is one of those rotting bugs that I consider a No Action on because noone seems motivated to drive it.

I will change it now to Enhancement.

It is in principle an change of spec and should be going through a feature proposal. But I have no drive or need to be committed developer on it.

-- KennethLavrsen - 09 Jan 2010