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A
TopicView defines a view for a topic. By default
WikiTopics are displayed using the installed
skin and the templates (don't confuse with
TopicTemplate being a content blueprint for newly created topics).
The view (compare with the 'view' term from the Model-View-Control school) computes the appearance
of a
WikiTopic and its form data. A new view is assigned to a topic by setting the VIEW_TEMPLATE variable.
For example the following will set th view to use the
HiddenFormViewTemplate to hide the form table that
is normally displayed below the wiki content.
* Set VIEW_TEMPLATE = HiddenFormView
Note, that the
...Template
string is appended automatically by the Foswiki engine.
Note also, that we use the TopicView type to mark even those views that are used during
editting a
wiki topic and is assigned using something like
* Set EDIT_TEMPLATE = FormEdit
As such the
FormEditTemplate is not used during Foswiki's view operation but during edit. The template
is then used to render the
view on the editor to be used. Edit templates either augment the normal
Foswiki editor, or even implement a full substitute for its form data.
Topics of type 'TopicView'