Item750: INCLUDINGWEB and INCLUDINGTOPIC will cause confusion when used in an INCLUDE chain

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Urgent	Closed	Engine	System web topics

what i should have written :/

topics that use INCLUDING* will trip up users - especially when they include something that is already INCLUDED - consider someone making a rss feed, so they INCLUDE Main's rss topic - they get a topic that show's Main's rss feed (until i fixed WebRssBase to use BASEWEB)

original bug report

because System . WebChanges uses INCLUDINGWEB, which is the next WEB up the INCLUDE chain, a topic that includes a topic that includes WebChanges will not do what it should.

WebChanges, and all the System web topics need to be converted from INCLUDINGWEB to BASEWEB for 1.0.1 .

this bug means anyone using topics that point to WebChanges will see the TWiki web's changes, not what it used to - so urgent !

-- SvenDowideit

Good catch. To assist and get it closed I did this one

-- KennethLavrsen - 13 Jan 2009

there are alot more topics with the same problem,

basically, all Web* topics are likely to be included in a chain. for eg, WebRss may be made by the user INCLUDING{Main.WebRss} which then INCLUDES{System.WebRss} - resulting in their rss feed saying that they are getting the changes of the 'Main' web.

same issue wrt INCLUDINGTOPIC, but even more subtle

but i've found a further oddity if you INCLUDE{System.Macros} - see Item771

-- SvenDowideit - 15 Jan 2009

ok, so the Web* topics are all done, and Item771 deals with the related issues for the Var* topics.

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Feb 2009