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TWiki Templates

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The second type of template in TWiki are template topics. Template topics define the default text for new topics. There are four types of template topic:

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Topic Name:	What it is:

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OpenTopics Name:	What it is:

WebTopicViewTemplate	Alert page shown when you try to view a nonexistent topic. This page is usually used as a prompt to help you create a new topic.
WebTopicNonWikiTemplate	Alert page shown when you try to view a nonexistent topic with a non-WikiName. Again, this page is used as a prompt to help you create the new topic.
WebTopicEditTemplate	Default text used in a new topic.

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4. Specifying variables to be expanded individually

You may want to mix variables to be expanded and variables not to be.

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Here's an example.

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See TWikiScripts for information about all the other parameters to edit.

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Automatically Generated Unique Topic Names

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Automatically Generated Unique OpenTopics Names

For TWiki applications it is useful to be able to automatically generate unique topic names, such as BugID0001, BugID0002, etc. You can add AUTOINC<n> to the topic name in the edit and save scripts, and it will be replaced with an auto-incremented number on topic save. <n> is a number starting from 0, and may include leading zeros. Leading zeros are used to zero-pad numbers so that auto-incremented topic names can sort properly. Deleted topics are not re-used to ensure uniqueness of topic names. That is, the auto-incremented number is always higher than the existing ones, even if there are gaps in the number sequence.

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