TopicType inconsistent behavior on topic creation

Overview

I'm seeing inconsistent behavior when creating topics of custom TopicType; sometimes the resulting topic gets its TopicType formfield set correctly, but sometimes it does not. Behavior seems to depend on how the destination web was created and how the topic is being created.

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding how to correctly set up the forms in custom TopicTypes, or if there may be a bug in one [or more] of these plugins...I just don't know. I'm looking for more eyes, and more experienced eyes, to help me figure out what's going on.

Using

• Foswiki 2.1.4
• NatSkin 2017-01-25
• WikiWorkbenchContrib 2017-01-23
• ClassificationPlugin 2017-01-23
• MoreFormfieldsPlugin 2017-09-23

Given

• A Wiki Application (Applications.ITDocumentation)
• A custom TopicType (VendorTopic), with the embedded form defined as shown below, using a TopicTemplate.
• A custom TopicTemplate (VendorTemplate), set for VendorTopic.
• A web FromClassificationTemplate (created from _ClassificationTemplate)
• A web FromDefault (created from _default)

Observed Behavior

Webs created from ClassificationTemplate

Within web FromClassificationTemplate, no matter whether I create a new topic from NatSkin +New (and select VendorTopic), or from the New button on VendorTopic, the resulting topic's dataform does not have VendorTopic listed in the TopicType formfield.

Default Webs

Within web FromDefault:

• If I create a new topic from NatSkin +New, the resulting topic's dataform does not have VendorTopic listed in the TopicType formfield.
  • NatSkin +New seems to take the TopicType formfield values from the TopicTemplate, rather than those defined in the DataForm in VendorTopic. So... I can work around some of this issue by putting VendorTopic in the template's TopicType formfield, but that doesn't feel quite right.
• If I create a new topic with the New button on VendorTopic, the resulting topic's dataform does have VendorTopic listed in the TopicType formfield.

Side Effects

Topics that don't get VendorTopic properly set don't show up in the topic listing at VendorTopic. Those topics are also not shown in form fields of type 'topic' (from MoreFormfieldsPlugin) that have value set to TopicType ="VendorTopic".

Vendor Topic Form

| *Name:*| *Type:* | *Size:* | *Values:* | *Description:* | *Attributes:* | *Default:* |
| TopicType | label | 1 | VendorTopic, ClassifiedTopic, WikiTopic | topic type  | | VendorTopic, ClassifiedTopic, WikiTopic |
| TopicTitle | text | 75 | | Vendor Name | | |
| Summary | text | 75 | | short description or tagline | | |
| SalesContact | text | 75 | | Sales Rep name | | |
| TechContact | text | 75 | | Tech Contact name | | |
| CustomerNumber | text | 32 | | Customer # | | |
| Tag | tag | 30 | | keywords for this topic | c | |
| Category | cat | 1 |  | categories this topic is field to |  | |

-- DanGlassman - 15 Sep 2017

I updated the text above to show that:

• I'm using a TopicTemplate
• Additional observations about NatSkin behavior
• Added default values to my DataForm (which didn't change the described behavior, unfortunately)

-- DanGlassman - 19 Sep 2017

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