META -- displays meta-data
- Provided mainly for use in templates, this variable generates the parts of the topic view that relate to meta-data (attachments, forms etc.) The
formfield
item is the most likely to be useful to casual users.
- Syntax:
%META{ "item" ...}%
- Parameters:
Item | Options | Description |
"attachments" | all="on" to show hidden attachments. title="..." to show a title - only if attachments are displayed. template="..." to use a custom template for the rendering of attachments; default attachtables is used. topic="..." : Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default "%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" . | Generates the list of attachments |
"parent" | dontrecurse="on" : By default recurses up tree, this has some cost. nowebhome="on" : Suppress WebHome. prefix="..." : Prefix that goes before parents, but only if there are parents, default "" . format="..." : Format string used to display each parent topic where $web expands to the web name, and $topic expands to the topic name; default: "[[$web.$topic][$topic]]" suffix="..." : Suffix, only appears if there are parents; default "" . separator="..." : Separator between parents; default " > " . topic="..." : Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default "%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" . | Generates the parent link |
"formfield" | name="..." : name of the field. The field value can be shortened as described in FormattedSearch for $formfield . newline="..." : by default, each newline character will be rewritten to <br /> to allow metadata that contains newlines to be used in tables, etc. $n indicates a newline character. bar="..." : by default, each vertical bar is rewritten to an HTML entity so as to not be mistaken for a table separator. encode="type" : have the value encoded in the specified type. Possible types are the same as ENCODE's. If this is specified, newline and bar options are ignored. topic="..." : Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default "%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" . | Show a single form field |
"form" | topic="..." : Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default "%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" . | Generates the table showing the form fields. See Form Templates |
"moved" | topic="..." : Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default "%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%" . | Details of any topic moves |
- Attention: The base topic, not the current topic, is used if
%META{}%
is placed in an included topic. Add a topic="%WEB%.%TOPIC%"
parameter if you need meta info of the current topic.
- Note: Formatting tokens can be used for
newline
, prefix
, format
, suffix
and separator
options, such as separator="$n * "
- Category: AttachmentsAndFilesVariables, SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
- Related: EDITFORMFIELD, FORMFIELD, METASEARCH, PARENTTOPIC, SEARCH, ENCODE, FormattedSearch
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