Item9358: newtopic Value of %TOPIC% within the web creation message. Optionally used in some skins to signify a non-default home topic.

System/CommandAndCGIScripts#A_61manage_61 mentions the newtopic param for manage cgi - I don't really know what its refering to, nor if it works as whoever does use it expects.

needs test, docco and ??

-- SvenDowideit - 20 Jul 2010

It appears that newtopic is used to redirect to when creating a web. It's a hidden field on the create a new web form in ManagingWebs and is passed in as a hidden param from the url.

(Well that's what it seemed to do from a quick look at the code. But it doesn't do anything that I can figure out. I've passed in new and existing topic names, and confirmed that the field was posted. But no effect that I can find.)

The code executed in UI::Manage is:

    # everything OK, redirect to last message
    throw Foswiki::OopsException(
        'attention',
        status => 200,
        web    => $newWeb,
        topic  => $newTopic,
        def    => 'created_web'
    );
}

If the created_web template in messages.tmpl did something with it, it could be offered as another option to click.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Mar 2011

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