Item13520: FORMFIELD macro fails to return text in a format that can be rendered. Workaround available.

On Foswiki 1.1.9, the FORMFIELD macro would return text that was then properly rendered as TML. On Foswiki 2.0, the returned data renders as (mostly) raw.

Crawford found the issue. The underlying system is returning <br> instead of $n newline, which breaks the TML.

Workaround, For in-topic references, replace FORMFIELD with QUERY.

%QUERY{"Somefield"}%
%QUERY{"'Someweb.SomeTopic'/fields[name='Somefield'].value"}%
%SEARCH{"Somefield" type="query" web="web" topic="topic" newline="$n" format="$formfield(Somefield)"}%

-- GeorgeClark - 13 Jul 2015

diff --git a/core/lib/Foswiki/Macros/FORMFIELD.pm b/core/lib/Foswiki/Macros/FORMFIELD.pm
index c1fa840..4fb4323 100644
--- a/core/lib/Foswiki/Macros/FORMFIELD.pm
+++ b/core/lib/Foswiki/Macros/FORMFIELD.pm
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ sub FORMFIELD {
             $name, $format,
             {
                 showhidden => 1,
-                usetitle   => $field->{title}
+                usetitle   => $field->{title},
+                newline => '$n'
             }
         );
         $text = $default unless length($text);

-- Main.CrawfordCurrie - 13 Jul 2015 - 16:43

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