%FORMFIELD{"fieldname"}%
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
---|---|---|
"fieldname" | The name of a TWiki form field | required |
topic="..." | Topic where form data is located. May be of the form Web.TopicName | Current topic |
rev="..." | Get the form field value from the specified topic revision, range "1" to top revision of topic. "0" is equivalent to the top revision | The rev URL parameter value if present, otherwise the top revision |
format="..." | Format string. Supported variables: • $value - form field value • $value(20, -<br />) - value hyphenated every 20 characters using separator -<br /> • $value(30, ...) - value shortened to 30 characters • $length - length of value (can be used to test if value is set) • $title - raw field name (includes space and other special characters) • $name - field name (sanitized title) • $attributes - form field attributes • $formtopic - name of form definition topic | "$value" |
default="..." | Text shown when no value is defined for the field | "" |
alttext="..." | Text shown when field is not found in the form | "" |
newline="$br" | Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters. Variable $br expands to <br /> tag, and $n to a newline. Other text is encoded based on encode parameter. | no conversion |
encode="html" | Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as "html" . Additional encodings available: encode="quote" , encode="moderate" , encode="safe" , encode="entity" , encode="url" and encode="csv" . See ENCODE for details. | "" (no encoding) |
%FORMFIELD{"Main/ProjectName" topic="Projects.SushiProject" default="(not set)" alttext="Main/ProjectName field not found"}%
%FORMFIELD{"Title" topic="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%" }%
topic="%INCLUDINGTOPIC%"
if you have a base topic that includes a report topic, and in the report topic you want to reference a field of the base topic
<input type="text" name="Address" value="%FORMFIELD{ "Address" encode="html" }%" />