7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

Accessing the
View script
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Since we want to conceive our scripts for all pages, it is advisable to
proceed as generally as possible. This primarily means replacing statistical
information with the corresponding variables when possible.
For instance, the View script is then invoked as follows:
%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%
The path to the script, as well as any defined file endings in
Twiki.cfg are derived from the TWiki settings. The name of the topic
to be accessed is clearly defined by the following variables:
%INCLUDINGWEB%/%INCLUDINGTOPIC%
Note that the skin files are actually embedded in the article. That is
why it is not enough to use the placeholders %WEB% and %TOPIC%,
since they would always point to the skin itself. The list of parameters
begins with a ?, and several parameters are separated by a &.
Thus, if you wish to have a link on every page which will display
that page in the dragon skin, use the following lines:
[[%SCRIPTURL%/view%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/ ↵
%INCLUDINGWEB%/%INCLUDINGTOPIC% ↵
?skin=dragon] ↵
[in Dragon Skin]]
The print view can also be generated with this link, since it basically
opens the same page with Print skin. So, you only have to replace
dragon with print in the above commands and change the label.
The edit script additionally requires the current time as a parameter.
You can use the variable GMTIME for it:
[[%SCRIPTURL%/edit%SCRIPTSUFFIX%/ ↵
%INCLUDINGWEB%/%INCLUDINGTOPIC% ↵
?t=%GMTIME ↵
{"$year$mo$day$hours$minutes$seconds"}%] ↵
[edit]]
As is the case for all TWiki pages, for a complex layout, it is indeed
possible to write it directly in HTML. This also enables you to use