Item12930: Inconsistencies in how subwebs are referenced

I'm just starting to use subwebs on my site and found that sometimes a dot is used as a delimiter between webs and subwebs and other times a slash is used as a delimiter.

For example (not an exhaustive list):

• To create a web on ManagingWebs you are told "If you are creating a sub-web (a web inside a web), use the notation Existingweb.Newweb"
• The SUBSCRIBE macro expects the format web.subweb.* to subscribe to all topics in a subweb
• Links of the form below will show up as web.subweb instead of web/subweb

[[%WEB%/WebHome][%WEB%]]

This can be confusing for users and adminstrators.

Also, the WEB macro returns the webname with slash delimiters and there isn't a macro that returns the webname with the slash(es) replaced by dot(s). This means there's no easy way to supply macros like SUBSCRIBE with the current web name except to hard code it since it is expecting the current web name to have dot delimiters, not slash delimters.

It would be good to clean this up.

-- LeilaPearson - 31 May 2014

Confirming this. It would be good if someone could pick this up for 1.2. I was under the impression that we always use Web/Subweb/Subsubweb.topic. The dot only being used as a web-topic delimiter.

-- GeorgeClark - 01 Jun 2014

See also Item11749. Templates use Web.Subweb.Template

-- GeorgeClark - 19 Jun 2014

Deferring this to 2.0. Also marked as Proposal Required. Some of this could potentially impact Foswiki operation, so best to discuss this rather than fixing without a design.

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And now deferred to 2.1

-- Main.GeorgeClark - 06 Jul 2015 - 03:27

-- GeorgeClark - 24 Apr 2015

See also Item13813

-- GeorgeClark - 27 Oct 2015

Deferring to future release.

-- GeorgeClark - 17 Dec 2015

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