History: User Input
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Although a profile sets most things by default, it is sometimes useful to be able to ask the user some simple questions, as the profile is built for them. For example: * A blogger will want to set the name of the blog * A webmaster will want to change the contact information. Profiles can contain any number of "user requests", these are questions that request a value. If they are not provided, a default value is used. The syntax to do so is: ^$profilerequest:''Label name of the value requested''$''Default value''$^ By default, the value will be filtered through XSS filters. You can specify a filter using the alternate syntax: ^$profilerequest:''Label name of the value requested''__''|Filter Name''__$''Default value''$^ Empty values after filtering will revert to the default value. If you don't want the result to be used inadvertently in other profiles make sure the __label name is unique__. The Label name and its value will be used for __all__ the profiles installed at one time. This would be the case if the chosen profile has dependencies. ! Example {CODE(caption=>YAML)} preferences: feature_blogs: y objects: - type: blog ref: personal data: title: $profilerequest:Blog Title$My Personal Blog$ description: Random daily thoughts and travel stories user: $profilerequest:Blog Owner$admin$ use_title: y allow_comments: y - type: blog_post data: blog: $personal title: Sample Post content: This post was created by the installation profile. {CODE} !Example with a datachannel You want to create a wiki page but asking interactively the name of the page via a data channel * Create a data channel named test on your local using the profile DataChannelTest {CODE()} test, tiki://local, DataChannelTest, Admins {CODE} * Create the profile of the data channel in the page DataChannelTest {CODE()} {CODE(caption=>YAML)} objects: - type: wiki_page data: name: $profilerequest:page_name$My Personal Page$ content: xxxxx {CODE} {CODE} * Create a page to test {CODE()} {DATACHANNEL(channel=test)} page_name,Give a Page Name {DATACHANNEL} {CODE} * the result ::{img attId=31}::