Item13487: Nat skin 404 page create link doesn't pass QUERYSTRING breaking functionality

I am using NatSkin to create a Foswiki that acts as a knowledge base from another application (Nagios).

As part of that we have specific template and parent page requirements that are passed to foswiki when the pages are created:

E.G.

https://www.example.com/foswiki/bin/view/NagiosWeb/NagHostcook-02?topicparent=NagHostIndex&templatetopic=NagHostTemplate&nowysiwyg=1&host=cook-02&alias=data-03

When using the pattern skin. These parameters are filled in on the form that is displayed when the page doesn't exist. So the user just creates the page and we are done.

When using the same url with the NatSkin the query params aren't preserved in the create link, so the user ends up at an empty page (no template text) that is also missing the parent setting.

Can somebody please apply the following patch and re-release NatSkin.

In 404.nat.tmpl please change the existing create::action definition to include the %QUERYSTRING%

%TMPL:DEF{"create::action"}%<tr>
<th>%BUTTON{"%MAKETEXT{"Create"}%" class="simple" icon="page_white_add" href="%\
SCRIPTURLPATH{"edit"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%?t=%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%&%QUERYSTRING%"}%</th>
<td>%MAKETEXT{"The page might be missing but it shouldn't."}%</td>
</tr>%TMPL:END%

Note QUERYSTRING may be empty and the url will have a trailing &. AFAIK this isn't an issue but if it is some additional macro trickery may be needed to remove the trailing &.

Thanks.

-- JohnRouillard - 30 Jun 2015

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