Item11527: Expand %MACROs in WEBFORMS pref when displayed in the add/change form UI

I'd like to get this into Release01x01, but maybe not for 1.1.5 until we get more testing done.

I really wanted to be able to do:

   * Set WEBFORMS = %FOO%.MyForm

To more easily manage distribution of a single set of DataForms to be used across many different instance webs.

In fact, this becomes a nice way to make it a SEARCH-driven, if you wanted to do that:

   * Set WEBFORMS = %SEARCH{"1" type="query" web="%FOOFORMSWEB%" topic="*Form" nonoise="on" format="$web.$topic" separator=","}%

-- PaulHarvey - 16 Feb 2012

I grepped all of trunk, there are only two callers to Foswiki::Form::getAvailableForms():

• Foswiki::UI::Edit, to show the "add form" button (or not).
• Foswiki::UI::ChangeForm, to show the list of available forms

I hate the way the code uses $metaObject->getPreference() instead of the Func API. That means we can't inherit WEBFORMS from parent webs, among other things.

If we were happy for WEBFORMS to behave like a normal pref, we wouldn't need any perl code for WEBFORMS at all. It should just be a %FORMAT{"%WEBFORMS%" ...}%.

Anyway, I believe I've changed nothing except that we expand %macros in the WEBFORMS pref before building the list of available forms.

-- PaulHarvey - 16 Feb 2012

Discovered the much earlier Item2478, closed as a duplicate of this.

In hindsight, perhaps I should have done a feature proposal. Let me know if you think I should

-- PaulHarvey - 16 Feb 2012

Chickened out of putting this into a patch release, let's make a 1.2.0 thing. Marking as done.

-- PaulHarvey - 07 Nov 2012 - 05:24

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