Item10345: FORMFIELD renders 'format' text with 'default' value as $value

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Normal	Closed	Engine

If a form field is empty, FORMFIELD has a parameter default to set the default text. The documentation says: "Text shown if the field is defined in the topic, but the field value is empty". But something else happens:

Test on this topic (while field Component is left empty):

%FORMFIELD{
"Component"
format="Component: $value"
default="(no Component value given)"
alttext="field Component does not exist in topic form"
}%

renders as:

(no Component value given)

So the macro uses the value of default for $value. Which is unexpected and wrong according to the documentation.

What happens with a non-existent form field?

field Blo does not exist in topic form

Nothing wrong there.

-- ArthurClemens - 12 Feb 2011