Item13879: WEB Variable describes a path; need variable for current working web

By definition, %WEB% is the name of the current web, but that's not true for subwebs.

In subwebs, %WEB% produces the path to the current web through all other upper level webs.

For example, we have a lot of subwebs on our site. At this location: http://wiki.cfcl.com/Projects/Access/Utiles/DS/WebHome, %WEB% evaluates to Projects/Access/Utiles/DS. It should evaluate to DS -- or there needs to be a variable that does.

-- VickiBrown - 01 Dec 2015

The web is defined as the Path/To/The/Web. It's the addressable web part of the Web.Topic address. So %WEB% IS the fully qualified web name. The last part is meaningless from a Foswiki perspective. You can get the last part easily with SpreadSheetPlugin: %CALCULATE{"$LISTITEM(-1,$SPLIT(/, %WEB%))"}%

-- GeorgeClark - 02 Dec 2015

Couple of options depending on the context:

• BreadCrumbsPlugin
• FlexWebListPlugin
• WebLinkPlugin

All of them have format options to get the web name, for instance

%WEBLINK{"Some/Deeply/Nested/InternalWeb" format="$name"}%

returns InternalWeb as a result.

-- MichaelDaum - 02 Dec 2015

The "other project" has added a format parameter to the %WEB% and %BASEWEB% macros.

format="..." Format, may include tokens $web (the full web path), $parents (parent webs, if any), $current (current web without parent webs), $top (top-level web with any subwebs removed) "$web"

This seems like a useful enhancement.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Dec 2015

And... now that I review our implementation of the WEB, BASEWEB, etc. macros, they are not macros, they are preference settings, and are handled based upon the topic context. This would be a rather complex change I suspect.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Dec 2015

I'm going to close this as no action needed. It's implemented as an extension - actually several choices of extensions.

-- GeorgeClark - 25 Mar 2017

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