Bram van Oosterhout

I have a topic (WebHome) in a subweb (Sandbox/Webs)

Sandbox/Webs.WebHome contains a wiki word TopicA. TopicA does not exist in Sandbox/Webs. TopicA is rendered appropriately as to be created.

The rendered link is incorrect: http://cdl/devwiki/bin/edit/Webs/TopicOne?topicparent=Sandbox/Webs.WebHome. The web does not exists. It should be Sandbox/Webs

I traced this to Render.pm line 70-72

     70 use constant DEFAULT_NEWLINKFORMAT => <<'NLF';
     71 <span class="foswikiNewLink">$text<a href="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"edit"}%/$web/$topic?topicparent=%WEB%.%TOPIC%" rel="nofollow" title="%MAKETEXT{"Create this topic"}%">?</a></span>
     72 NLF

In =Render.pm line 1080-1089=it appears that this may be substituted via a NEWLINKFORMAT preference. But that has very limited application.

   1080 # Get the template for a "new topic" link
   1081 sub _newLinkFormat {
   1082     my $this = shift;
   1083     unless ( $this->{NEWLINKFORMAT} ) {
   1084         $this->{NEWLINKFORMAT} =
   1085           $this->{session}->{prefs}->getPreference('NEWLINKFORMAT')
   1086           || DEFAULT_NEWLINKFORMAT;
   1087     }
   1088     return $this->{NEWLINKFORMAT};
   1089 }

Is there a way I can configure the correct behaviour, or is this a bug to be fixed?

-- BramVanOosterhout - 21 Jan 2020

What's your setting for NEWLINKFORMAT?

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Jan 2020

Here what SHOWPREFERENCE gives"

Set NEWLINKFORMAT = "<a class="foswikiNewLink" href="%SCRIPTURLPATH{"edit"}%/$web/$topic?topicparent=%ENCODE{"%WEB%.%TOPIC%"}%" rel="nofollow" title="%MAKETEXT{"Create this topic"}%">$text</a>"

    NEWLINKFORMAT was defined in System.DefaultPreferences

-- BramVanOosterhout - 21 Jan 2020

Hm, I tried this on my local install and cannot reproduce the described error.

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Jan 2020

I'll upgrade to 2.1.6 and verify.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 21 Jan 2020

Yes, it works correctly in a fresh install of 2.1.6.

I'll close this question. Thanks for checking.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 21 Jan 2020