Content from System Web rendered into sidebar

In my foswiki every content in the system web is rendered into the sidebar - the main window ist empty.

I'm using nat skin and have made a SiteSideBar to get some more navigation items into the sidebar - which works in every web, but not in System. Do you have any hint, where I should look into?

-- MichaelLorenzen - 05 May 2023

Would you like to share your side bar code?

-- MichaelDaum - 05 May 2023

Sure, this is Main.SiteSideBar:

---+!! %TOPIC%

Default %TOPIC% component is at [[%SYSTEMWEB%.%TOPIC%]] - this is our local definition including treeview/treebrowser.
<verbatim class='tml'>
%STARTINCLUDE%<!-- -->
%TMPL:P{"sidebar::header"}%<!-- -->
%TREEBROWSER{ theme="file" shared="tree" title="" openTo="0" noroot="true" }%
%TREE{ formatting="outline" format="   * $topic" levelprefix="   " excludetopic="Web*"}% 
%TMPL:P{"sidebar::links"}%<!-- -->
%TMPL:P{"sidebar::mysidebar"}%<!-- -->
%TMPL:P{"sidebar::tools"}%<!-- -->
<!-- -->%STOPINCLUDE%</verbatim>

-- MichaelLorenzen - 05 May 2023

System.SiteSideBar is unchanged

-- MichaelLorenzen - 05 May 2023

Try adding the parameter web="%BASEWEB%"= to %TREE{}%

-- MichaelDaum - 05 May 2023

This does not help.

I tried to look deeper behind this error and found, that TREEBROWSER gives a JavaScript-Error in System Web, and only there.

My (maybe temporary) fix is to exclude TREE/TREEBROWSER in System Web, because I mostly need it in the content webs:

%IF{"web!='%SYSTEMWEB%'" then="$percentTREEBROWSER{ theme=\"file\" shared=\"tree\" title=\"\" openTo=\"0\" noroot=\"true\" }$percent" else=""}%
%IF{"web!='%SYSTEMWEB%'" then="$percentTREE{ formatting=\"outline\" format=\"   * $topic\" levelprefix=\"   \" excludetopic=\"Web*\" }$percent " else=""}%

Do you know a somewhat more elegant solution?

-- MichaelLorenzen - 08 May 2023

After looking a bit more into it and the JavaScript-Error I found the source of the problem:

The browser development tools showed this Error:

tree.add(502,0,"<a href=\"/fw/System/NewLdapUserTemplate\">%EXPAND{\"$percntLDAP{\\"sAMAccountName=$percntUSERNAME$percnt\\" format=\\"$dollardisplayName\\"}$percnt\"}%</a>",'','','','/fw/pub/System/TreeBrowserPlugin/page.gif');

The source is the topic NewLdapUserTemplate, which has this setting:

   <nop>* Local TOPICTITLE = %EXPAND{"$percntLDAP{\"sAMAccountName=$percntUSERNAME$percnt\" format=\"$dollardisplayName\"}$percnt"}%

which is rendered as topic title by the search in TREE and lets TREEBROWSER s JavaScript fail. This seems to break page rendering while in SideBar, and every following content is written into it.

Excluding NewLdapUserTemplate from the TREE search also solves the problem:

excludetopic="Web*, NewLdapUserTemplate"

So it is more a problem of LDAPContrib or TREEBROWSER, I suppose?

-- MichaelLorenzen - 08 May 2023

Excluding NewLdapUsersTemplate sounds perfect.

-- MichaelDaum - 09 May 2023

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